“Would you feel any better if they were pushed out of windows?”

– Archie Bunker

If the place where you live doesn’t have more than 10 building with more than 10 floors each, you don’t live in a place with an “inner” city anyway. You have a downtown.

Suburban ERs see more drownings than gunshot wounds and vice versa.

More people die from a swimming pool each year than from a gun.

We have older kids that have taken swimming lessons and therefore know how to swim well, CPR, and all about pool safety. We also have a family member with a backyard pool, so they understand the safety issues with a pool w/ cousins and jackassery, and no lifeguards, etc.

On the other hand, my Dad has guns at his farm, and so I have talked with the kids about gun safety as well.(With example of the sheer stupidity that my brothers managed with the guns, and are very lucky that no one was ever shot.)

I also witnessed my neighbour getting shot when we were young, because they weren’t being smart while shooting gofers.

So I guess it is all about educating your children, and only hoping that the other kids that they associate with are also being educated also. It’s like driving, you can teach your children about driving safely, and let them take Drivers Ed., but there are a lot of crazy drivers out there, and that is a real danger, even if you teach them to be defensive drivers as well.

I think that trampolines are more of a death trap than anything though. Our son broke his leg on our neighbours tramp when he was younger, and the ER Doctor said that he has never allowed his family to have a trampoline because of all the injuries that he has seen from them.

I guess everything is dangerous to the ignorant.

For the purpose of this exercise, yes, you can choose just one.