I have decided to stop spending so much of my time and effort fighting anti-gun measures and tactics for a more useful endeavor. No, I am not joining the anti-gun cause. What I am going to do is begin a lifelong crusade against backyard swimming pools.
My slogan will be "Not Even One". My desire will be to save all children from drowning in backyard swimming pools. This is a far more important issue than "gun control" as statistics show many more children die from drowning than from gunshot wounds. Furthermore, there is little to no utility (good) that can come from backyard swimming pools to offset the horrible tragedies that happen year after year as toddlers fall into these deathtraps. There are a plethora of alternative exercise options. The backyard swimming pool is unnecessarily and unreasonably dangerous to our children. Unlike firearms, which are used defensively to stop aggression some 2.5 million times per year in the US, swimming pools have no saving graces to speak of. They don't stop attacks. They don't get us quickly from point A to point B like cars (the biggest killer). There is really no reason any normal citizen needs to own a swimming pool. If you really want to swim, you can go to the public pools which have lifeguards on duty at all times, and the pools are plenty deep to prevent spinal column injuries from diving into a shallow pool. This, folks, is a worthy cause if I ever saw one, and I personally am FIRED UP about it. I think this will become a nationwide movement as soon as we begin the effort to paint backyard swimming pools as the evil instruments of destruction that they really are.
[This message has been edited by Futo Inu (edited July 29, 1999).]
My slogan will be "Not Even One". My desire will be to save all children from drowning in backyard swimming pools. This is a far more important issue than "gun control" as statistics show many more children die from drowning than from gunshot wounds. Furthermore, there is little to no utility (good) that can come from backyard swimming pools to offset the horrible tragedies that happen year after year as toddlers fall into these deathtraps. There are a plethora of alternative exercise options. The backyard swimming pool is unnecessarily and unreasonably dangerous to our children. Unlike firearms, which are used defensively to stop aggression some 2.5 million times per year in the US, swimming pools have no saving graces to speak of. They don't stop attacks. They don't get us quickly from point A to point B like cars (the biggest killer). There is really no reason any normal citizen needs to own a swimming pool. If you really want to swim, you can go to the public pools which have lifeguards on duty at all times, and the pools are plenty deep to prevent spinal column injuries from diving into a shallow pool. This, folks, is a worthy cause if I ever saw one, and I personally am FIRED UP about it. I think this will become a nationwide movement as soon as we begin the effort to paint backyard swimming pools as the evil instruments of destruction that they really are.
[This message has been edited by Futo Inu (edited July 29, 1999).]