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Reduce gun violence
- I support criminal background checks at gun shows to keep guns
out of the hands of criminals.
Improve the transportation system
- Highways 26 and 217 need improvements sooner, not later.
Manage growth
- While the urban growth boundaries protect our farmland, we
need to improve our ability to manage growth inside them.
Support our families
- Improve safety and effectiveness of child care system
- Protect choice
- Provide targeted tax relief for low and middle income families
Questions and Answers
Gun Violence
Children First for Oregon, a nonprofit dedicated to the well-being
of all Oregon children, has identified a number of issues of importance,
and published responses from Mitch and other candidates for the
legislature.
Children First: Gun violence remains a real threat to
children in Oregon. Twenty-six children in Oregon died due to
gun shot wounds in 1997 and many more are injured each year. Will
you support gun safety legislation that decreases children and
youth's access to guns?
Mitch: I worked very hard to get the initiative on the
ballot that would require criminal background checks at gun shows.
And I will continue working on this issue, in opposition to the
NRA, which supports my opponent. Keeping weapons safely away from
children is a critical issue that must be addressed through education,
through incentives for manufacturing safer weapons, and through
holding parents responsible for events that follow when their
children get access to a loaded gun. All of these will be priority
items for me.
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