[Labyrinthos]

Far more children — and I mean real children, not 16 yo gangbangers — die from drowning than from firearms, yet firearms get all the attention. If you really want to save children, then get rid of backyard swimming pools, bathtubs, swimming holes, and baptismal pools.

[cva66snipe]

I'm 57 and this is the first time I can recall hearing of a kid drowning in a baptismal pool which is a modern concept as far as being inside the church building goes. The preacher I knew at the last church I attended used it sometimes and sometime a local creek or lake. The pool inside the church took several days to warm up because the church was on well water. Anybody in East Tennessee who watched the Heartland Series segment "The Baptism" saw him holding a Baptism service at a creek.

Death is a part of life and it can come to anyone anytime from many causes. My parents took a chance allowing me as a teen to camp out on the lake alone and I swam alone a lot of times. We also lived on a creek and I spent many a summer day in it. I was a good swimmer but still yes I could have drowned. The realistic and more probable risk to my life came when I was 16 and got a drivers license.

[Elsie]

And ‘retention’ ponds