Weer'd World

From Waldo:

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….

I have a novel idea on this whole “Safe Gun” argument.

The antis are always talking about “Safe Gun” technology, be it crazy mandatory safeties, microstamping, and unproven biometrics or RFID technology that only allows the gun to be fired by authorized users.

Here’s a simple solution. Pass a law enforcing whatever technology they hold dear, but have it be for law enforcement only. Demand it to be 100% at the state or federal level where it is passed and force ALL police weapons, from sidearms, to shotguns, to patrol rifles, SWAT equipment, and even TASERs and pepper spray.

Cops are mandated to carry weapons in their jobs. Most departments have provisions to allow officers to take the weapons home at the end of their shift where their families live and neighbors are nearby. Further due to the nature of law enforcement police are more likely to be involved in shootings, and more likely to have their weapons grabbed or stolen by criminals.

If these technologies are so good, Police have the greatest benefit to gain. After say a 5 year trial period, Anti-rights lawmakers could open up the discussion to civilian arms!

Common Sense!