We can start by mandatory licensing of ALL pool owners and making them go through gubmint background checks. All pool owners will have to carry their "Pool Owner ID Card" with them at all times when near a pool. And said ID will have to presented when purchasing anything pool related, like say.. water wings. Naturally a database will have to be kept of all pool owners so any irresponsible multiple offenders, or probable offenders, can be found and jailed PQD.
And naturally anyone ever charged with child or spousal abuse, had a DUI, a ticket for reckless driving, sought counseling of any type, ever seen a shrink for any reason, especially depression - will be banned for life from owning a pool or anything pool related.
Furthermore, it's only logical that any licensed pool owner be limited to how many pool related items they may purchase at once. If we follow some gun laws, one a month is 'fair'. Otherwise they might be buying a floating lounge chair for an UNLICENCED person, we can't have that! NO STRAW POOL PURCHASES - period.
But this presents a conundrum - why or how can we 'only' stop at pools?. These dangerous people can as easily do their mischief with a bath tub or a bucket. Those will have to be confiscated too - for public safety.
And please, don't even mention diving boards or slides. Those 'assault weapons of mass death' will be burned in the public square at noon next Saturday. After all, it's for the children.
but, but,... what about the loop-hole in pool safety of unregulated garage sales of pools and Flea-Market sales?</sarc
Buckets are the 'logical' equivalent of Saturday Night Specials(tm), cheap and uncontrolled. Is (tap) water the 'logical' equivalent of ammunition?