What we need is pool control

Earlier this summer a tragic accident occured in the Minneapolis metropolitan area. A young girl, in a privately run swimming pool, sat on a drain and had part of her intestines sucked out. It was a preventable accident - starting with the parents who were supposed to be watching the child. That did not stop our Junior Senator and our Senior RINO from springing into action - demanding that legislation be drawn up to regulate swimming pools. Thus nanny government would "save us" from harm. The same "logic" is used in the gun control debate. Guns must be controlled by the government in order to protect the children!

A simple fact of life is that a child is more likely to be injured or killed in a swimming pool or bathtub than the are by a handgun. However, in our topsy turvey world, most parents have more problems sending their child to the home of a conceal carry permit holder (174 deaths per year) than they do one that has a swimming pool (1236 deaths per year) or a trampoline (approximately 100,000 injuries a year).

The number one cause of death in children in the US is automobile accidents, drowning is number 2. Accidental shootings....no where close!

Using the old saw about saving the kids from accidental shootings in the home is one of the ultimate red herrings in the gun control debate. When you look at the cold hard facts (of the leading causes of childhood death and injury) you realize that our kids face far greater dangers every day....dangers that are not (and should not be) as tightly regulated as guns are in this state.