Yes, accidents happen. But this is precisely the type of thinking that got us where we are today. Millions of kids playing in the forest and a few get hurt so we keep them inside now.
Similar to how millions of kids go to school without being shot or killed yet people want to pull back as many guns as possible.
With guns on all the racks in the trucks in the lot. It's a tired trope, but it's true.
This should be fun.
I think the other ~100k deaths and injuries sustained by firearms every year might also come into play there.
The deaths you're speaking of are also not accidental.
Survival rates are higher now. Rates of serious injuries and deaths due to accident are lower now. Much lower. Not saying that right now is necessary the ideal equilibrum, but kids in past died of accidents and it was not unusual event. It was not mere theoretical construction that might happen to someone else.
> Plenty of kids were killed or died gruesome deaths in older days.
How "old" are you talking about here?
Probably referring to the Black Forest of medieval Germany.
Please provide evidence of this. The overwhelming, staggering, majority, didn't die gruesome deaths because they played unsupervised.
Some, sure, but there was hardly an epidemic.
Meanwhile, there were literal epidemics of children dying when my mother was a kid.
probably. Note that my laugh goes bothways. I'm annoyed by the over paranoid life of today, but I realize that we were too candid back in the days. Society oscillates/