Gun Control & RKBA

As I mentioned in the other thread, according to CDC WISQARS data (2012), of 4,147 accidental deaths of children aged 0-14, only 62 involved gun accidents (same number as falls). 708 kids drowned that year; 1,418 were killed either in motor vehicles, or from being hit by motor vehicles; 308 died in accidental fires; 94 died from accidental poisoning; and 1,118 died from accidental suffocation. Any of those are a parent's worst nightmare, and all of us take steps to prevent them. But gun accidents are a much smaller threat to children than other accidents, accounting for less than 2% of child accidental deaths aged 0-14.

Since swimming pools are between ten and a hundred times more likely to kill a child aged 0-14 than a gun in the home is, on a per-owning-household basis, isn't it a bit inconsistent to demand harsh laws against owning guns, but not against owning pools, on that basis? I'm not calling you out, just noticing that there is definitely a difference in the tone of the rhetoric in the media, and in the harshness of the legislation typically proposed. Particularly when the primary targets of said legislation (modern-looking rifles) arguably kill fewer Americans annually than bicycles do, though one would never know that from the corporate media.