Pools 100 Times More Dangerous than Guns
Here’s a story you won’t see printed in the NY Times or a Hearst paper:
A child is 100 times more likely to drown in a pool than be killed by a gunThey’re pulled from backyard pools and bathtubs each year, tiny limp bodies, blue and not breathing.
A young life can vanish quickly under water. A survivor can endure a lifetime of disabilities. Either way, families are torn apart by an almost always preventable tragedy. …
Levitt analyzed child deaths from residential swimming pools and guns and found one child under 10 drowns annually for every 11,000 pools. By comparison, one child under 10 each year is killed by a gun for every 1 million guns, according to his research, outlined in a new book “Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side to Everything,” which he co-wrote with journalist Stephen J. Dubner.
Freakonomics is on the NYT bestseller list. A colleague is reading it and highly recommends it (even though he is a flaming liberal).
