IF the kid went to that much trouble to kill himself, then the fix was in. If he hadn’t used a gun, he would have found something else.
Exactly right. I have trigger-locks on my guns, mandatory in California with kids in the house. I also have a tool shed with tools capable of cutting the lock in a minute or two. A teenager will easily defeat a trigger-lock, but if they decide to do that then their decision to take suicide is not just an impulse decision but a planned mission. They could more easily cut their wrists by running them through a bandsaw, mission accomplished. My wife's sister is wondering what compelled her husband to kill himself last month, he blew his head off with a shotgun. Having a gun had nothing to do with his need to end his life, as he would have found other ways to do so, it was in his character.