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Jumping deaths—as opposed to firearm deaths and overdose deaths—are relatively easy to prevent.

The suicide prevention net on the Golden Gate Bridge has led to new bipartisan legislation.

The Barriers to Suicide Act would fund physical suicide barriers at other jump sites.

Now that a net on the Golden Gate Bridge has proven to prevent suicides, bipartisan federal legislation has been introduced that would provide funding for suicide barriers—a tall railing or a net—at other jump sites in the U.S. The legislation has flaws, but the intent is meaningful. If the bill passes, other communities with jump sites won’t have to wait until more than 2,000 people have died—as they have at the Golden Gate Bridge—before a physical suicide deterrent is erected.

In September, senators Alex Padilla and Thom Tillis introduced the bipartisan Barriers to Suicide Act. It would........

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