Blackfork notes that after many years of suggesting that pools kill far more kids each year than guns do, the federal government has actually started to regulate pools. I think we need to stop giving them ideas.
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well, this is a different case. This smells of one of those laws named after one kid.
It shouldn’t be a law.
“He said one person dies because of pool or spa drain suction in a typical year”
If it saves just (literally) one person….
any guesses on the unintended consequences?
The expense of the law IS its own unintended consequence. I ran the numbers (and did a post) and the law forces people to spend a _minimum_ of 240 million dollars and will save _maybe_ 30 lives in the next 30 years. Talk about a crappy rate of return.