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Public health experts: firearm suicides drive Oregon’s high gun-fatality rate
Summary
OHSU-PSU researcher Kathleen Carlson told joint Judiciary committees that firearm fatalities in Oregon are driven disproportionately by suicide, with rural residents and veterans especially affected, and urged lethal-means interventions and better state data.
Dr. Kathleen Carlson, injury epidemiologist at the OHSU–PSU School of Public Health, told the joint Senate and House Judiciary committees that firearm deaths in Oregon are higher than U.S. averages and that suicide accounts for most of those fatalities.
"In Oregon, 77 percent of all of our firearm deaths are related to suicide," Carlson said, summarizing state data covering the most recent five years. She reported approximately 3,100 firearm fatalities in Oregon across that…
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