Letter: Protective orders could prevent many suicides

In The Salt Lake Tribune Editorial, “Time to take firearms seriously”, the editorial board points out the important common-sense solution of Red Flag laws to reduce gun deaths and injuries.A Red Flag law, also called Extreme Risk Protective Orders (or ERPO), is being proposed currently in Utah by Rep. Steve Handy, R-Layton, as a critical part of the solution to address our state’s high rate of suicide.As a recent Harvard study on suicide in Utah shows, half of all suicides are