• Rekorse@sh.itjust.works
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    3 months ago

    I thought you were making a joke but the number one cause of childhood mortality in the US is firearms. Number two is vehicles.

    No problems here though, what can you do right? Thoughts and prayers!

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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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          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.