Spike in children's drownings was avoidable, coroner's report says

And not one call for a pool registry. But if they had died from a gunshot . . .

I agree. A registry of swimming pools would be worth every penny to save even one life.

There should also be restrictions on the size and depth of swimming pools that people own. No one needs an Olympic sized pool that's so deep that it just kills every young child that comes near it.

Swimming pools should be locked up in a safe with the water locked in a separate safe.

I also want inflatable assault pools banned. No one needs to have a portable and easily concealable swimming pool that they can bring into a school or public park and then use it to kill innocent children.

Those 1 meter diameter fiberglass swimming pools serve no legitimate sporting purpose and should be banned since anyone might smuggle one past the metal detectors at airports and then use them to hijack a plane or to drown helpless passengers and crew.

Anyone complaining about these common sense laws is probably a racist, terrorist, or one of those redneck pool nuts and those people should be publicly ridiculed.

Really? Why would anyone complain about common sense pool laws that save lives?

Drowning, statistically, is a huge threat for kids. I spend a lot of time teaching my kids respect for water. Especially moving water, but pools as well. And I never take my eyes off of them when they are in the lake. It can happen too fast.

What comes to mind are all the snarky college kids who've managed to get notable people to sign petitions to ban dihydrogen monoxide.

When I was a kid, I was taught the same respect for water. I also got lessons on gun safety.

Neither killed me, yet.

If my kids want to learn about guns, they'll have to join cadets. I don't have any, have never really handled them and am therefore not in much of a position to teach about them.

Dihydrogen monoxide--the silent killer! Actually they pulled it off again, using hydric acid instead of DHMO.

Right on Zip, thats all the we need to do as society to avoid theses deaths, if everyone were as responsable about it as you (and I for that matter) then.....
I do agree that schools should teach swimming though, some people can't afford lessons at the local pool, and it is great exercise, we did swimming in junior high but nothing in elementary

Which is great. But to have them and not teach them how to safely keep and use them is just asking for trouble. Same goes with a pool, or even a koy pond.

And Bathtub, too many infants die becaus parents leave them alone in the tub

When you have something dangerous around or have friends with something dangerous around, you have to teach them or have them taught.
I don't have guns either, although I like to shoot at beer cans. Haven't done it in forever, so I am not the one to teach my kids. The moment they are going to be close to guns (friends, family of friends), those people will be asked to teach them.

My kids were able to swim before school taught them. You can't go to the beach or a lake with kids who do not know what to do in water. Like you can not hand them a gun and expect them to know how not to kill something.

If you look at it, every single accidental death is avoidable.

Most of my younger life, we lived on the edge of water, either salt or fresh. Do you think that anybody at that time suggested putting up a fence to stop kids from playing near the water? Of course not, they educated us on the dangers of water and taught us how to swim as soon as we could walk. When we played outside, there was always a large group of kids... we watched out for each other, the older kids keeping an eye on the younger ones.

I have an above ground pool (12ft) in my unfenced backyard. The street behind my house is 4 or 5 meters higher than the first floor of my house, which is about a meter above ground. It's also about 15 meters horizontally from my pool. The street out front is at least 30 meters from my pool, separated by a carport and a driveway.
You cannot accidentally be in my yard, let alone in my pool.
I have to fence it (the pool, that is, not necessarily my yard), with a 1.2 meter fence. My pool is higher above ground than that. Can anybody explain me the logic in that?

When I was a kid, I was taught the same respect for water. I also got lessons on gun safety.

Neither killed me, yet.
Well to be fair, you can be killed by someone elses poor handling of a firearm.