first they came for the guns, but i wasn't a gun owner, then they came for the pools...
Posted on 01/22/2014 7:34:06 PM PST by kingattax
With drowning in backyard pools accounting for so many child deaths in Australia, is it time to ban backyard pools? Jo Abi says yes.
Drowning is one of the leading cause of death in children under five with majority of those deaths occurring in backyard pools. So why haven’t backyard pools been banned?
If any other product or activity caused so many injuries and deaths in our most vulnerable they would be banned, there would be lawsuits, there would be outrage. Except backyard pools are an intrinsic part of Australian culture, and it’s costing us children’s lives.
According to Kidsafe, an average of two Australian children drown each week. Most are under 5 years of age and more than half drown in backyard pools. “The children at greatest risk are toddlers, aged 1-3, and for them drowning is the single most common cause of death”.
This statistic doesn’t account for the number of near drownings, many of which result in brain injuries.
(Excerpt) Read more at ivillage.com.au ...
I would suspect that abortions actually lead the statistics for deaths of children under 5.
“So why haven’t backyard pools been banned?”
Why hasn’t irresponsible parenting been blamed? It’s not the presence of a pool that’s the issue—it’s the sheer stupidity of people who pro-create and have the audacity to call themselves “parents”.
So there will always be something they are trying to ban.
first they came for the guns, but i wasn't a gun owner, then they came for the pools...
The “Even if it saves one life” syndrome strikes again.
/johnny
The real problem is water. It’s a killer. We should ban water.
first they came for the guns, but kids still died...Then they came for the pools, but,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
There is a video where some guy goes around with a petition to ban dihydrogen monoxide. He gets plenty of people to sign it.
It might have been the Pen & Teller guy.
Another victim of dihydrogen monoxide.
How about public pools, high school swim team pools, Lakes, rivers? Heck, let's ban the oceans!!!!!
And, in the case of a friend in Australia, when he went to the pool behind his house there last summer, he found a large Krait snake swimming in his pool. It got in it somehow and couldn’t get out.
Well, the solution is obvious. They should ban kids.
Way ahead of you.
http://dhmo.org/
100%
damn... doubleplus ungood
Bfl
>> how about a ban on everything ?
I would love to see a ban on bans.
We can make everyone use beer instead of water in their pools. Perhaps that will help.
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