Quote Of The Day

"Millions of men and women in this country come from cultural backgrounds of hunting, target practice, marksmanship and precision shooting. This heritage of marksmanship is a Canadian phenomenon. Young people learned to shoot from their parents as part of their heritage. Canada's World War I hero, Billy Bishop, learned to shoot as a boy in Owen Sound, Ontario, with a rifle given to him for Christmas by his father. It is a similar situation for young women. Linda Thom, at age 8, learned to shoot with her father. She won a gold medal in the 1984 Olympic Games. In gun sports, men and women compete as equals. There is even a group of women shooters called the 'Gun Grannies.'....Those who engage in the recreational and economic use of firearms are persons who are law-abiding citizens, who abhor the illegal and illicit use of firearms. They see that crime and the illegal use of firearms bedevils Canada's big cities, especially Toronto. In Toronto, aggressive and successful initiatives are required in the area of crime prevention, including initiatives in law enforcement, criminal judicial processes, plea bargaining, sentencing and, most important, in race relations, to solve Toronto's enormous crime problems." — Senator Anne Cools, member of the Conservative Party (Canada)