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OUTLAW SWIMMING POOLS! Swimming pools are 52 times more likely to kill children than guns!

Posted on 01/10/2013 7:40:27 AM PST by ComtedeMaistre

Here is some excellent analysis that shows that swimming pools kill more children than guns, despite the fact that we have more guns than swimming pools in this country:

http://www.m1-garand-rifle.com/firearms-versus-swimming-pools.php

When you factor in the number of pools relative to that of guns, the analysis shows that a child is 52 times more likely to die in a swimming pool than by a gun shot. We need to outlaw swimming pools, in order to save the lives of children. I am all for pool control. We must fight to ensure that the pool builders lobby does not undermine our attempt to save the lives of children.

Why is Obama not holding a press conference to denounce the lack of pool control, and introduce licensing for people who own pools? Is it because guns are more effective at stopping communism than swimming pools?


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Political Humor/Cartoons; Your Opinion/Questions
KEYWORDS: banglist; children; guncontrol; guns; secondamendment; swimmingpools; vanity
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As you may have guessed, my agenda is to expose the hypocrisy of liberal media elites. They do not care about American children, but want to create a mass hysterical reaction that will give them an excuse to repeal the Second Amendment to the US Constitution.
1 posted on 01/10/2013 7:40:34 AM PST by ComtedeMaistre
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To: ComtedeMaistre

If we can save even one child’s life by outlawing swimming pools, it will be worth it.


2 posted on 01/10/2013 7:44:02 AM PST by upchuck (America's at an awkward stage. Too late to work within the system, too early to shoot the bastards.)
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To: ComtedeMaistre

Why don’t we just get to the core issue and outlaw water?


3 posted on 01/10/2013 7:45:28 AM PST by fwdude ( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
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To: ComtedeMaistre

I always wait five days before going into a swimming pool. It’s a cooling off period.


4 posted on 01/10/2013 7:45:28 AM PST by cotton1706
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To: ComtedeMaistre

Is taking a cool dip in your swimming pool so important to you that it’s worth the life of even one of our precious children? Are you some kind of a monster?

/s


5 posted on 01/10/2013 7:47:34 AM PST by Dr. Pritchett
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To: ComtedeMaistre

The thing that scares people about guns is that they make a loud noise and people bleed when they are hit.

Swimming pools, bathtubs, alcohol, drugs and hospitals kill many many many times more people than guns, but they do it quietly and usually alone, so people don’t notice.


6 posted on 01/10/2013 7:48:09 AM PST by lurk
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To: ComtedeMaistre

That which is a danger to children does not matter.

What is a danger to totalitarian government is what matters.


7 posted on 01/10/2013 7:49:56 AM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: ComtedeMaistre

8 posted on 01/10/2013 7:50:09 AM PST by Diogenesis (Vi veri veniversum vivus vici)
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To: lurk

The reason the Media is not scared of pools is you cannot stop a Jack Booted Thug with one.


9 posted on 01/10/2013 7:50:38 AM PST by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: Dr. Pritchett

and while we are at it OUTLAW COCA-COLA AND PEPSI!

Did you know they PURPOSELY ADD CARBON-DIOXIDE (a dangerous greenhouse gas!) to their drinks?

That is what the bubbles are. I cannot believe this criminal behaviour is allowed to take place.

ALL ‘carbonated beverages’ must be banned!

Won’t somebody think of THE CHILDREN!!


10 posted on 01/10/2013 7:50:45 AM PST by Mr. K (There are lies, damned lies, statistics, and democrat talking points.)
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To: lurk

Medical malpracttice deaths run around 100,000 anually these are mostly wrong dose or wrong drug. We should ban drugs doctors and hospitals


11 posted on 01/10/2013 7:58:40 AM PST by from occupied ga (Your government is your most dangerous enemy)
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To: ComtedeMaistre

Cars, trucks, SUV’s - now these are killers! Outlaw them!

Planes kill people - outlaw them....

I think the list could go on and on....


12 posted on 01/10/2013 8:02:58 AM PST by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: ComtedeMaistre

National statistics support that medical and doctor mistakes cause 9000 more deaths in the population than guns.

9000


13 posted on 01/10/2013 8:04:26 AM PST by George from New England (escaped CT in 2006, now living north of Tampa)
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To: ComtedeMaistre

Going off the deep end!


14 posted on 01/10/2013 8:05:10 AM PST by getarope (Time for the repubs to grow some balls and STOP the Kenyan in his tracks NOW!)
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To: ComtedeMaistre

Stop giving them ideas. Diving boards have already disappeared (I only know of one pool within 30 miles with diving boards...).


15 posted on 01/10/2013 8:06:34 AM PST by Little Ray (Waiting for the return of the Gods of the Copybook Headings.)
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While we’re at it, let’s also ban the trucks that deliver propane and gasoline so some nutcase doesn’t hijack one and plow it into a building full of people.


16 posted on 01/10/2013 8:07:50 AM PST by Kevin in California
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To: fwdude
"Why don’t we just get to the core issue and outlaw water?"

Nah, the REAL killer is GRAVITY!

17 posted on 01/10/2013 8:10:20 AM PST by moehoward
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To: Diogenesis

That chart does suggest that black kids need to keep their butts out of the pool.

That or pools are just plain racist...


18 posted on 01/10/2013 8:10:33 AM PST by Abathar (Proudly posting without reading the article carefully since 2004)
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To: moehoward

This just announced...

Mayor Bloomberg has outlawed having water more than one drop at a time out of an eye dropper

Claims it causes obesity....which causes death

(S)


19 posted on 01/10/2013 8:12:53 AM PST by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: ComtedeMaistre

Most towns won’t tell you but they consider pools a public nuisance.

Ask any building inspector. If the codes got any stricter, they’d have you filling them with concrete.


20 posted on 01/10/2013 8:14:12 AM PST by headstamp 2 (What would Scooby do?)
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