More people drown than that every summer. Would you like to outlaw swimming pools as well? Those things kill children you know.
Okay, another right wing bullshit claim. When you can't argue that guns aren't dangerous, try to claim other things are more dangerous.
but...
CDC - Water-Related Injuries Facts - Home and Recreational Safety - Injury Center
- From 2005-2009, there were an average of 3,533 fatal unintentional drownings (non-boating related) annually in the United States — about ten deaths per day. An additional 347 people died each year from drowning in boating-related incidents.2
So let's compare that to gun deaths.
Gun violence in the United States - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Gun violence in the United States results in thousands of deaths and thousands more injuries annually.
[1] According to the
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, in 2013, firearms (excluding BB and pellet guns) were used in
84,258 nonfatal injuries (26.65 per 100,000 U.S. citizens)
[2] and
11,208 deaths by homicide (3.5 per 100,000),
[3] 21,175 by suicide with a firearm,
[4] 505 deaths due to accidental discharge of a firearm,
[4] and 281 deaths due to firearms-use with "undetermined intent"
[5] for a total of
33,169 deaths related to firearms (excluding firearm deaths due to legal intervention). 1.3% of all deaths in the country were related to firearms.
[1][6]
Took me about two minutes to put the lie to that claim that drowning is more dangerous than guns in the home, and I didn't even have to parse it to how many drownings were in swimming pools vs. Lakes and rivers.