{"id":3812,"date":"2016-08-06T11:02:34","date_gmt":"2016-08-06T15:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/?p=3812"},"modified":"2016-08-06T11:02:34","modified_gmt":"2016-08-06T15:02:34","slug":"of-pools-and-guns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/of-pools-and-guns\/","title":{"rendered":"OF POOLS AND GUNS"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cChildren die from gunfire. They can only be saved by removing guns from society, and you gun people are all savages and selfish bastards if you won\u2019t give up your guns to save JUST ONE CHILD\u2019S LIFE!<\/strong>\u201d<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sigh.\u00a0 Yes, that\u2019s the kind of argument we get from the prohibitionists.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s talk.<\/p>\n

It is generally accepted that a far greater number of tragic, accidental deaths of children are due to drownings, often in private swimming pools or even hot tubs, than to unintentional gunfire. Let\u2019s explore that.\u00a0 See: http:\/\/www.m1-garand-rifle.com\/gun-safety\/firearms-versus-swimming-pools.php<\/a> , and also http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/deltoid\/2001\/07\/27\/levittpoolsvsguns\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you want to save the children, why not become an activist for banning private ownership of swimming pools and hot tubs?\u00a0 After all, there is nothing in the Bill of Rights that guarantees the right to own such things, the way there is with firearms.\u00a0 You could play the Bloomberg Card and change the terminology to fit your narrative. \u201cOh,\u201d you could say, \u201cwe just want to regulate <\/em>your swimming pool.\u00a0 We\u2019ll start by demanding twenty-foot-high fencing, nuclear facility grade if you please, around the pool property.\u00a0 And of course, require 24\/7 lifeguards.\u201d\u00a0 Michael Bloomberg could afford that, just as he can afford his large, heavily armed contingent of round-the-clock bodyguards.\u00a0 Ordinary folks can\u2019t afford that?\u00a0 Too bad.\u00a0 There you go being selfish bastards again, instead of thinking of those poor children!<\/p>\n

Of course, all those nice, law-abiding citizens whose hard-earned pools you might want to brick over will say, \u201cBut \u2013 but \u2013 we didn\u2019t install that pool to kill <\/em>anybody!\u201d Well, guess what, law-abiding gun owners didn\u2019t spend their <\/em>hard-earned dollars at the gun shop so they could kill people, either, or American sidewalks would be littered with corpses.<\/p>\n

\u201cBut, pools are beneficial to society. They relax people. And there are all kinds of healthful benefits from swimming, and exercises physically challenged people can do best in pools.\u201d True. And guns are hugely popular in sporting applications, from target shooting to harvesting meat from the hunting field.\u00a0 And marksmanship is one of the few sports at which some physically challenged people can compete and win on equal ground with the able-bodied. More than once, the handgunner in the wheelchair has been overall top shot in my classes.<\/p>\n

And, as statistics show to those who simply open their eyes and minds, guns save a huge number of innocent lives and prevent a great many serious crimes.<\/p>\n

All of which is why banning guns, or restricting them to the rich and privileged, makes no more sense than doing the same with hot tubs and swimming pools.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cChildren die from gunfire. They can only be saved by removing guns from society, and you gun people are all savages and selfish bastards if you won\u2019t give up your guns to save JUST ONE CHILD\u2019S LIFE!\u201d Sigh.\u00a0 Yes, that\u2019s the kind of argument we get from the prohibitionists. Let\u2019s talk. It is generally accepted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3812","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-firearm-owners-civil-rights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3812"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3812\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3812"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3812"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3812"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}