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Public‑health researchers: Oregon’s firearm deaths rising; suicides drive state totals
Summary
OHSU‑PSU epidemiologists told the Judiciary committees that firearm fatalities in Oregon are rising and are driven disproportionately by suicide, with rural areas, veterans and some communities of color carrying higher burdens.
Dr. Kathleen Carlson, an injury epidemiologist at the OHSU‑PSU School of Public Health and founding director of the Gun Violence Prevention Research Center, presented statewide data showing rising firearm fatalities and large disparities.
Carlson said the U.S. averaged just over 45,000 firearm fatalities per year in recent years and that nationally 56% of those deaths are suicides. In Oregon, by comparison, she reported that 77% of firearm deaths are suicides and that the state’s firearm death rate — about 14.8 per…
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