Not having easy access to handguns would be a start...but that's like trying to put the toothpaste back into the tube.and I don't know how you change the mindset whereby you don't think you can leave your home unless you're packing a piece.
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GNPE, I agree with you about the impossibility of "putting the toothpaste back in the tube."
Both of my parents served in the Army during WWII. Both of them abhorred the idea of private ownership of firearms. I did too, until I moved to the Western State I now call home. (New Mexico.) After I had lived here for about 10 years, I realized there were just too many deaths due to firearm violence to ignore.
DH and I both own and are trained and licensed to carry firearms. Thank Heaven we have never had to use them, but it is good to know they are there.
Reminds me of a story. My daughter was baptized in the same gathering as a boy. He took his life in highschool. The people in the ward tried to hush up the method. It made me very angry that some like my neighbor seemed to be using this as some sort of importance thing, like who got to know.
I don't know how he did it but we suspect a gun and the poor boy was probably homosexual but I don't know that either.
I'm sorry for your sadness and loss. Keeping thing secret didn't help. My heart goes out to you.
Maybe it's too soon, but the church has an answer to these tragedies. Not only can the dead be baptized by proxy in the temple, because inside every nonmember is a Mormon fighting to get out, but they can be get their endowment. I can't tell you about the endowment because of its double secret sacredness, but after mine I felt super endowed.