Mr. Speaker, every six days a woman is shot to death in this country. Seventy-five per cent of the female victims of homicide are killed in their home by somebody they know. By a margin of two to one the weapon of choice for such murders is a firearm. In 80 per cent of those cases that firearm is a rifle or shotgun legally owned. I cannot accept the premise of this question that gun control does not at least in part address the tragedy of domestic violence.
In the House of Commons on December 9th, 1994. See this statement in context.