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390 deaths from swimming pools every year in the US. 390 > 0, ban all swimming pools.


How many people are pointing swimming pools at each other or themselves with the intent on causing harm?


No idea since homicide by drowning is notoriously hard to prove[0], but the median pool is more likely to drown someone than the median "assault weapon" is to kill someone.

~10 million swimming pools in the US vs. ~20 million "assault weapons," and there are fewer murders annually with long guns of all types (of which "assault weapons" are a small subset) than there are pool drownings. Also pools disproportionately kill kids, while most victims of gun violence ate adults.

0 - https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/drowning-one-hardest-ho...




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