The United States Congress is seeking to ban a nationwide killer that results in nine deaths a day on average, including 26 percent of the deaths of all 1- to 4-year-olds.

What is this catastrophic epidemic? Swimming pools.

Of course Congress is not debating any such legislation. Such a course of action would be too logical to ever make it in American politics.

No, tax dollars go, instead, to regulating an item that comes after choking in the list of hazards to children’s health.

Gun control laws are not only unconstitutional, but the very proponents of gun control act based off of misinterpretation, naïveté and disregard of the facts.

We cannot trust our legislatures to defend our rights in the matter, but instead must actively defend ourselves from rampant regulation.

It is a favorite topic of the media to present gun control as a natural solution to over-hyped childhood accidents. Of course, even one death, especially of a child, is too much, but the hypocrisy of these efforts is astonishing.

Children are seven times more likely to drown than to be shot, but lobbying dollars are sullied in attempts to deceive the public into thinking otherwise.

If certain legislators followed their logical arguments to conclusion, they’d find themselves regulating everything from how deep our pool water can be to how fast we chew.

The natural next step would be to wrap ourselves in bubblewrap in yet another attempt to coddle the public.

But, of course, the ramifications of gun control are not contained to any age group. Homicides and other violent crimes are the real threat. Yet again, the results are either inconclusive or contrary to common held belief.

Gun control would be a convincing solution to growing urban crime rates if it were an effective means of curbing violence.

But it’s not.

While it’s true the United Kingdom does hold a lower violent crime rate than the United States, the same cannot be said for other countries around the world with considerably more restrictive laws than American ones.

Yet countries such as Israel and Switzerland that make gun licenses laughably easy to obtain boast much lower murder rates.

The same is true not only abroad, but here in the United States. The 31 states that allow concealed firearms have, on average, 24 percent less violent crime, including 19 percent fewer murders.

Guns by no means should be the law of the land – this is true. But if guns are outlawed, only outlaws will have guns. Rarely is law written as clearly as the Second Amendment.

The Bill of Rights was written with the sole concern of defending the natural rights of men and women, and the Second Amendment is no exception.

As time goes on, our rights are fewer in number, and each is more sacred for it. Our Bill of Rights, when followed, has not led our country astray in 233 years, and it will not abandon this record unless we abandon it.