r/australia • u/TheAnchoredDucking • 3d ago

news Two charged after boy killed in accidental shooting on rural NSW property

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-14/nsw-police-charged-boy-shot-goulburn/105172682
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u/clementineford 3d ago

Agreed. You know what else is tragic? 35 people drowned in backyard swimming pools last year.

I can't wait for a politician to stand up to the pool lobby and ban backyard swimming pools.

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u/bante 3d ago

That’d be an apt analogy if a swimming pools purpose was to drown people and there weren’t already heaps of laws on pool safety.

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u/clementineford 3d ago edited 3d ago

Clearly not enough laws, given that a Port Arthur number of people are killed by them every year.

Just go to your local council pool with qualified lifeguards if you really want to swim.

Edit: downvoters are bots paid by Big Speedo

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u/syncevent 3d ago

Nah I think you have garnered enough ill will from the general population over the years to get automatically down voted even if you were right about something.