Toddler wounds both parents with 1 shot from handgun (updated)

[Sancho]

58. Yea..I'm sure states differ...

In Florida they have started a boat license program. It's easy to pass, but everyone is supposed to take a simple test that is state required. Here's the link:

https://www.boat-ed.com/florida/?gclid=CIq9wN2nwcMCFURo7AodRk8A0A

I don't know the state law on scuba and snorkeling (other than flag laws, etc.), but none of the dive shops will rent or take you on trips here without the PADI certification course. Maybe it's just liability, but I think that Florida regulates things like diving, parasailing, etc. Even though the certification is private, there may be some kind of government oversight. I know a dive shop owner who is an attorney, so I'll ask him when I get a chance what the regs are...it's a good question. I am sure that diving is MUCH safer now that people have to be certified to get equipment.

At any rate, I don't think it matters if training or insurance is a private certification, as long as there was some kind of requirement that keeps the obviously unsafe folks from easy access to guns and ammo. There's a way around any rule, but in this case (like a lot of others), someone was pretty clueless to leave loaded guns where kids could get to them. In the 1950's my father had a gun case - and the unloaded guns were in the case while ammo was locked in a drawer with a different lock. You had to have two keys to get to both. I had kids in the house years ago. I have a gun safe and trigger locks.

That's the idea behind a license for people to possess guns. I think if insurance companies were involved, they also would be asking about locked storage, kids in the house, and training.