Whatever one believes about the gun-control debate, everyone wants to improve firearms safety. However, while accidents from firearms make up a very small portion of gun deaths in America, suicides with firearms make up about 60 percent of gun deaths nationally. I feel qualified to address this, since I have treated a fair number of gunshot wounds over my career. So what can we do to reduce firearms deaths — from accident, suicide and homicide? First of all, we can make sure that people who are unsafe to own firearms, can’t. This is partly a matter of effective legislation and law enforcement. But it also falls on family members and friends of people who own — or attempt to obtain — guns but who shouldn’t. If you know that someone in your home is actively suicidal or dangerous to others, you should remove the firearms from your home. And if…