drownings

Unless the website isn't showing drownings happening in the same pool 27 times, but hundreds of identically constructed pools then the website is a counterexample showing that drownings happen relatively regularly.

I'd also disagree with that same assertion with regard to lifeguards: Drownings (and near-drownings prevented by a rescue) are pretty uncommon, too.

Tragic, yes, every one of them, but so are falls down stairs and swimming pool drownings (comparable numbers).

In ten percent of those drownings, the adult will actually watch them do it, having no idea it is happening.

This is close to saying that lack of oxygen is the number one killer in drownings.

Popular 2013 article, was discussed on HN in the past: > Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning > In 10 percent of drownings, adults are nearby but have no idea the victim is dying.

The traditional example of drownings and ice cream consumption has that third link.

Or a nationwide ban on bathtubs to end the risk of bathtub drownings?

That's exactly what he's saying though - that the Freakonomics article does NOT break the numbers down sufficiently, for either Drownings nor Gun Deaths.

A lot more people die from gunshots than people drown, even if you count all drownings, not just pool-related (in the US, of course).

That's reduced the number of river drownings significantly in recent years.

Bathtubs claim about 80 fatal and 100 non-fatal drownings per year.

While these are issues with guns, they aren't the same issue as murder and should be treated differently (consider how often you see "pool related homicides" when discussing accidental drownings of children).

Abu Zubaydah, for example, became "completely unresponsive, with bubbles rising through his open, full mouth." Internal CIA records describe the waterboarding of Khalid Shaykh Mohammad as evolving into a "series of near drownings.

At the camp I worked on, you not only had to worry about actual drownings, but also administrators who would try and "steal" a kid about once a week from unobservant counsellors, then call a waterfront drill where all the lifeguards on staff had to search the entire waterfront for a "missing" camper.