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Since January , nearly 17,000 have died by firearm suicide in the United States .
Red flag laws and mandatary waiting periods to buy firearms could also buy precious time for a suicidal individual to reconsider their decision or for loved ones to intervene.
White men are also the most likely to own a gun and to vote Republican , authors say.
The only way this changes is if Republican leaders show some courage and use their power to put people over politics. Arne Duncan is the founder and managing partner of Chicago CRED. He served as the CEO of the Chicago Public Schools and as U.S. secretary of Education under President Barack Obama . Gevin Reynolds , a law student at Yale University , is a frequent contributor to the Root and a former speechwriter to Vice President Kamala Harris . He dedicates this piece to his late father, Handel Reynolds ..
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