Mandatory safe storage laws do nothing. you're assuming that because it's a law people will follow it. Safe storage laws are tack on penalties that are simply feel good laws for the anti gun crowd.

My point is that the guns should be secured in such a way that even if the kid wanted to kill themselves, the gun is not an option. It’s locked away.

I believe suicide/assisted suicide shouldnt be 100% illegal.

Not what assisted suicide is. People seeking assisted suicide have terminal illnesses and want to die with as much dignity and as little trauma as possible.

"They can just blow their brains out in the bedroom with a cool gun" isn't a solution, it's the pro-gun crowd trying to pretend they're actually deeply compassionate people for advocating dogshit gun laws.

I would have to say that a kid who slits their wrists or overdoses would have to see the same charges there. Someone wanting to kill themselves always has the means.

Not how suicide works. Means reduction has been repeatedly shown to be an effective method of suicide prevention.

But it doesn't stop there. Only 1 in 10 people who survive a suicide attempt will go on to die by suicide but functionally nobody survives an attempt with a gun.

And of course, what's currently the suicide method of choice for radicalized teenagers? Grabbing a poorly secured gun and killing as many people with it as you can before the police shoot you in the head or you get bored and blow your brains out.

But I guess if we didn't supply them with semi-automatic weapons, they'd just go out and do a mass hanging or mass wrist slitting instead.

That is a good point, but it should still be on the parents to secure the guns. If you own a gun, it’s on you to also buy whatever you need to keep that gun locked up and safe.

Why did it upset you?

Because it's unnecessary.

This and this are both failures; gendering the failing parent simply isn't required.

Both are a failure to prevent a child from accessing a firearm.

Yes but they are only similar in the broadest sense; a child grabbing a loaded gun out of Mom's Purse or Dad's Nightstand are very different scenarios from a teen who destructively opens a gun safe or steals the key to it.

Safe storage for firearms is desirable but requiring the prosecution of those who made a good faith effort and failed is not.