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….Backyard pools need to be banned. They are way too dangerous. It doesn’t matter if you have a pool fence, locks on your back door, are super vigilant, have children who can swim. Drowning deaths and backyard pool related injuries are too frequent for us to ignore.
When I bought my house it came with a cheap above-ground pool. I hacked it up with an axe and tossed it in my dumpster. I moved in about a dozen guns, but pools are fucking dangerous, and they’re an insurance liability.
But I live in New England, where pool ownership is, to put it lightly, stupid. They’re good for maybe 3 months out of the year, and the rest of the time is maintaining them.
Still Australia is NOT New England, nor is the Southern or Western United states. Its hot, dry, and you have a decently long warm season in even the coolest climates.
Have a watch of the advocate for this ban prattle!
Might as well just ban adulthood…which isn’t too far off, as “Progressives” are calling adults 26 and under “Children” for Obamacare, as well as any other political axe they want to grind.
Also from Aussie news from Cargosquid. It turns out that Aussies are as well armed as they were before the mass government confiscation.
“By mid-2012, following a steady 10-year upward trend in gun buying, Australians had restocked the national stockpile of private guns to pre-Port Arthur levels. They did this by importing 1,055,082 firearms, an average of 43,961 each year since destruction programs began.”
Yet the antis claim no mass shootings and low “Gun Death”. Maybe it isn’t the guns….
This isn’t a parody? Seriously?
OMG.
As waldo said in the comments: “I read this one all the way through waiting for the punch line…didn’t find it.”
I’m down in Aussie land right now, and yes there ARE shooters and gun owners… Had dinner with a couple of them last night in Adelaide… It takes roughly a YEAR to actually take possession of a gun, but it can and is being done… Criminals on the other hand, steal or manufacture what they want… 17,000+ illegal guns confiscated in NSW last year…
there has to be an aweful lot of them and deturmined to undo all that damage with all the additonal hurdles put in their way.
and good on them, because this is how they win it back!
You know, we say “would you ban swimming pools?” as a barb during the gun debate, but there are really people like that. Wow. And it seems she’s calling for all backyard swimming pools to be banned- nothing about age or whether or not you even have kids. The we looks at what she says starting at 3:40. She says things like, “sometimes you need to step back and ask ‘is this the right choice for me?’ or ‘maybe I’ll wait till their older’” and “I’m just asking for a rethink”. No- she’s not asking for a “rethink”- she’s calling for a ban. Her solution isn’t about choice- it’s about government taking away choice through fines and crimes. We see this in the un debate, when occasionally they pretend they only want to educate people about choice, while also publically stating their goals of taking away choice through force of government.
Are there two people going by the “Archer” handle? ‘Cuz I’m pretty sure I didn’t send you that one.
It’s awesome to be sure, but I want credit to go where credit is due. 🙂
fixed it, it was Cargosquid, not you.