We may be talking about that, and that would be the figure to find, but that's not the figure the Freakonomics article used. That's the point. Here's the quote

We may be talking about that, and that would be the figure to find, but that's not the figure the Freakonomics article used. That's the point. Here's the quote from Freakonomics: "In a given year, there is one drowning of a child for every 11,000 residential pools in the United States. Meanwhile, there is 1 child killed by a gun for every 1 million-plus guns" And then the author draws conclusions based on that. It says nothing about "drowning in a pool" - only drowning. It says nothing about death by a gun at the gun owner's house. It says nothing about households with multiple guns (nor households with multiple pools, I guess). The point UnoriginalGuy was trying to make is that this is absolutely shoddy statistics at work. Now his statistics may be equally as shoddy, but he's not selling books about this stuff.