Law sought to curb youths' access to guns

[Robb]

With her son dead and another boy traumatized, possibly for life, Jodi Sandoval looked around the courtroom and asked why no adults were being held responsible.

The 15-year-old who unintentionally killed 14-year-old Noah McGuire was wrong to pick up his grandfather’s gun, Sandoval knows.

But the grieving mother thinks Levi Reed and other minors who face criminal charges are being “ thrown under the bus” in states that fail to enact child-access prevention laws. So-called CAP laws, which vary by state, generally require adults to store guns safely and securely wherever children could be present, or face criminal liability.

Ohio is not among the 27 states that have some type of child-access prevention law, said Renuka Mayadev, executive director of the Children’s Defense Fund-Ohio.

Read More: http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2013/08/25/law-sought-to-curb-youths-access-to-guns.html

As pointed out later in the article, "...even Texas, North Carolina and Florida have such laws."

[ellisonz]

1. The failure of every state in this country to pass stringent CAP laws is obscene. n/t

[wild bird]

2. So why can't the congress step in and make it a federal law?

Oh that's right, they can't even agree on a universal background check law.
Sorry to ask such a dumb question.