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County and clinicians urge measures to protect children: age limits, safe storage and supports
Summary
Multnomah County public‑health officials, child and adolescent psychiatrists and Everytown testified that gun violence harms children directly and indirectly, and recommended safe storage, youth‑focused interventions and raising the minimum age for certain semi‑automatic rifles to 21.
Speakers from Multnomah County public health, child psychiatry and the advocacy group Everytown presented the scale and consequences of firearm harm to young people and urged policies to reduce youth access to the most lethal weapons.
Charlene McGee, director of Multnomah County’s Prevention Health Promotion Unit, said that violent crime and homicide mortality rates in Multnomah County are more than twice the Oregon average and that BIPOC youth are disproportionately affected. McGee cited school‑survey data showing that 27% of Portland Public School students reported…
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