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The Houston Chronicle reports that 50 children have already drowned this year in Texas. While even one child’s death is a tragedy, some aspects of this event are curious.
Between 2000 and 2006–the latest data available–the Centers for Disease Control reports that 640 children (age 0-14) drowned in Texas, for any reason. This includes 29 homicides and 603 accidents. During the same time period, 286 children died from gunshot wounds, of which 182 were homicides and 45 were accidents.
There were 779 total child homicides during this period, indicating how easy it is to kill a child. These numbers also show which device is more dangerous. Most people would say that guns are deadlier, but most child firearms death was due to violent intent.
Patrick Crimmins, spokesman for the Texas Department of Family and Protective Services, stated: “In many of the recent cases the children don’t appear to have been adequately supervised.” Since it appears that accidental drowning deaths for this age group requires neglect by adults, it is clear that swimming pools are more dangerous for children than guns, because unsupervised use of pools is 13.4 times deadlier. Either that, or gun owners as a whole practice very safe storage and handling behaviors, obviating the need for more children firearms access laws.
The Children’s Defense Fund (CFD) has weighed in on firearms, calling for more federal gun control legislation and even recommending that parents remove guns from the home. But CDF is strangely silent on drowning deaths, even though more than twice as many American children drowned during 2000-2006 than died from gunshot wounds (6,101 to 2,820, respectively).
Where is the Brady Campaign to Prevent Drowning? The Drowning Policy Center? Calls to ban pools over a certain size? Bans of pool sales between private parties?
If these alleged public safety organizations truly cared about the children, they would apply their resources where they would save the most lives.
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