• chiliedogg@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Interestingly, the most dangerous thing to have around children is a pool.

    Drowning is the number 1 cause of death for children ages 1-4 in the US and still asking the leading causes of death all through childhood. Most of those deaths are in pools.

    8 percent of houses have pools, whereas 40 percent have guns.

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      2 months ago

      Sure, more people should understand the danger around having a pool.

      I have a pool and small children. I dont have a gun though.

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        2 months ago

        There are also regulations where I lived that you can’t have a pool built now without having a barricade of some sort to prevent kids from falling in. But no regulations that you have to have a gun behind a barricade around kids. (You could be grandfathered into not having the netting if you had it built prior to the legislation)

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          2 months ago

          Pools and trampolines are considered dangerous for kids in america when the top two causes of death for children are guns and cars.