Yes, and 400 children are killed by their parents/guardians every year, and 20 toddlers drown in buckets every year. Snakes are far from the biggest threat. But of course you also have to take opportunity and population into account. Very few people are killed by tigers in the US, but that's because there aren't many tigers. It definitely doesn't mean you want your neighbor keeping a tiger in a chicken wire enclosure in his yard. Every child is around their parents/guardians. A lot of kids are around dogs and buckets. There are a lot of cows and horses too.
Very few children are around large snakes, even fewer around loose large snakes. So what percentage of children who are around loose large snakes get killed or injured? 50%? 10%? I have no idea, but it's probably proportionately more than those who are killed or injured by dogs or parents. There's something like 80 million dogs and 90 million parents in the US, so there's far more opportunity for something to happen.
And, yes, there sort of is a "inspection and permit" process to own a cow, in that you can't keep cows in town. You have to have a certain amount of land per cow. They don't just let everyone who thinks cows are cute keep a cow in their backyard. And most towns do have vaccination and licensing requirements for dogs. Maybe no inspection process but they know who that dog belongs to.
I don't really know what the answer is, just that I absolutely cannot agree with the people who think there should be NO regulations.
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