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Visualizing how a population grows to 7 billion. Found here.

There is one drowning of a child for every 11,000 residential pools in the United States. Meaning in a country with over 6 million pools, roughly 550 children under the age of ten drown each year.

Meanwhile, there is one child killed by a gun for every one million+ guns. So, in a country with over 200 million guns, roughly 175 children under the age of ten die from guns.

In conclusion, likelihood of death by pool is 1 in 11,000 versus by gun 1 in a million+.

Yet, more parents feel comfortable with their children staying over at a friend’s home where the parents own a pool rather than a gun.

* This blog is based off the book I am reading the the moment Freakonomics.

What three things would cross your mind?

Surveillance camera trick - so glad this didn’t happen to me!

We all die. The goal is not to live forever, it is to create something that will.
Bruce Hudson

This video is so sweet it will break your heart.