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Is it true? Nope.
The CDC says that from 2005 to 2009 there were an average of 3533 drowning deaths in the United States. One in five were kids under the age of fourteen, meaning that 700 kids each year drowned in any circumstance – pool, lake, pond, river, ocean, tub, etc.
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission says that between 2006 and 2010 there were 434 drownings of children under 4 in bathtubs, buckets and toilets or 87 per year. 13 percent were outside the home in a small amount of water, meaning there were about 75 deaths annually due to bathtub drowning. The risk of drowning in a tub is almost non-existent above the age of 4.
The Brady Campaign says that 85 children under the age of 5 died of gunshot wounds in 2007. It also says that 124 children under 19 years of age die annually due to accidental gunshot wounds. 2829 die of all gunshot wounds.
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Oh, lord, do we really need to point out the logical flaw in this argument? More children die in car accidents than in gun accidents. Therefore, we shouldn’t worry about guns at all - in fact, we should give them to 6-year-olds as birthday presents, right?
And of course, the purpose of a bath is to get a toddler clean. The purpose of a car is to transport a toddler to day care, or to visit his grandparents. The purpose of a gun in the home is… well… Hmmm. It would seem that the purpose of a gun in the home is to increase the likelihood that the little kid who lives there is going to get lead poisoning.
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Drown in a bathtub and people work to raise awareness of the hazard. Get shot and people shriek it’s either the kid’s fault or a nefarious plot to get rid of the 2nd Amendment.
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No its not true, not even close. As usual Carlson is just making up his own facts. I think its called lying.
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A pertinent question. According to the CDC, 2 kids drown each day on the average.
http://www.cdc.gov/homeandrecreationalsafety/water-safety/waterinjuries-factsheet.html
How many in bathtubs are unclear. Anecdotally, most seem to be in pools or lakes.
For shootings, this place claims 3000 a year.
So 8 or so a day.
Yeah, I know. Different methodologies and all. Still, it seems like you should treat Mr. Carson’s number as a biohazard because of the orifice he pulled the numbers out of…
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Even if it were true that bathtub fatalities were more common than gunshot deaths, I’m sure the even criminally insane gun nut lobby would not reject common sense precautions to help prevent them.
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I say, let the kids die
Wouldn’t it be great if there was someone who had the job of checking made-up claims by conservatives? We could call them jou…journal…well, it would be something other than ‘stenographer’.
Since we know they have no qualms about just making sh!t up - end justifies the means and all that…
making sh!t up…it’s the conservative way!
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Trust Fund Tucker has a bad habit of lying every time he opens his mouth.
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Don’t be too sure of that.
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Tucker Carlson: the only known example of a douche who became an even bigger douche after he stopped wearing a bowtie.
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The real fallacy in Tucker’s argument (inaccurate statistics notwithstanding) is that in either case, the deaths of the children are completely preventable.
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Even if that were true, one would need to look at the death rate per (say) 100,000 bathtubs/guns. (Nearly) every home has a bathtub. Not every home has a gun.
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What a canard. In Arizona where the gun laws are lax, more people die from gunshots than car accidents. Are we in a race to see how many people can be killed or do we want common sense regulations.
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Looks like they may be running out of bullshit to throw against the wall.
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Did Tucker die during the Stewart ‘Crossfire’ segment, the video rental clerk affair or during his ill-fated MSNBC show?
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Tucker Carlson.
Clueless dweeb.
Ca$hin’ that NRA welfare check today Tuck?
jw1
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More adults die from heart disease.
I’m thinking until we can fix that we just ignore the gun thing.
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Reminds me of the title of Al Franken’s book, which title I don’t exactly remember but which still fits: The Lyin’ Liars and the Lyin’ Liars Who Put Them On The Air.
Carlson is a perfect fit for the lyin’ liars of Faux.
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