Thank you for that.
I'll quote from the article, and this is for the committee. This is in the American context. It said, “What we call assault rifles probably account for fewer than 7 percent of guns used in crimes and only a small share of suicides, and they have repeatedly proved difficult to define.”
Mr. Langlois, you might be aware that a recent Statistics Canada report that came out in December, a couple of months ago, said that in violent crimes in Canada, a rifle or shotgun—a long gun—was present in only 0.47% of all violent crimes.
Would you agree that long guns in the Canadian context are far less involved in violent crimes than in the American context, and that they form a small minority of crimes committed in Canada where they're present?