Yes my 'Merican friends. Some countries do regulate swimming pools as well as guns

Don't get why they want to change it.

It has been working fine

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...............The proposed weakening of swimming pool fencing law is a "reckless" experiment which will lead to an increase in toddler drownings and permanent brain injuries, say child health specialists. Starship children's hospital specialists will tell MPs today that the Building (Pools) Amendment Bill must be withdrawn or at least subjected to a major rewrite. The Government says its proposed replacement of the 1987 Fencing of Swimming Pools Act with changes to the Building Act will reduce compliance costs by $17 million a year and that six more drownings may be prevented every 10 years through the requirement for five-yearly inspections. The bill would, from next January, scrap the need to "fence" new home pools, replacing this with the requirement to have "physical barriers that restrict access to the pool by unsupervised children under 5"............

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