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Survivors and experts urge lethal-means safeguards, enhanced ERPO implementation
Summary
Survivors, clinicians and intervention specialists told committees that separating firearms from people at heightened risk, improving ERPO implementation and imposing waiting periods or purchaser licensing are critical steps to reduce firearm suicide in Oregon.
Survivors and mental-health and implementation specialists told Oregon’s joint Judiciary committees that preventing firearm suicide requires practical steps to separate lethal means from people at elevated risk, and they urged strengthened implementation and data collection for extreme risk protection orders (ERPOs).
Carol Manstrom, a retired Lane County parole and probation officer and gun owner, described the 2017 firearm suicide of her son and urged support for proposed…
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