Prorogation means all government bills on the Order Paper die. But private members’ bills stay active. This is good news for Helena Guergis, minister of state for the status of women. She is happy her colleague Candice Hoeppner’s private member’s bill to end Canada’s long-gun registry is still going ahead. Guergis grew up with guns; when she was young, her father, Karam Guergis, would take her hunting for deer and caribou. Guergis was recently at the Barrie Gun Club, where she was treated like a hero by gun owners. Guergis managed to hit the bull’s eye with a rifle and used some handguns for the first time. People at the club say the end of the long-gun registry is a good first step toward establishing a more sensible gun policy. Guergis says dealing with gun owners whose firearm possession licences expire is a big issue in her large rural Ontario riding. Members of the Barrie Gun Club complained about myriad problems with the system, including not getting their renewal notices for their possession licences on time. Guergis did say that while she has no problem with shooting gophers, she could never bring herself to shoot a large animal.
Awesome!!!
It's even more awesome to see a lady MP on the firing range! And it's particularly awesome that another lady MP, Candice Hoeppner, is spearheading the drive to gas that useless POS gun registry!
Thousands of women across this country are involved in the shooting sports, including hunting. One will find an ever increasing array of articles within the pages of hunting and shooting magazines both written by women, and about women, who pack a rifle and shoot with the best of 'em. Indeed, the Editor in Chief of Sports Afield is Diana Rupp, who has done a smashing job of transforming one of North America's oldest hunting/shooting magazines into pretty much the classiest publication in the industry.
Both my daughters got the opportunity to punch their first targets with a Cooey single-shot .22 long before they reached the ripe old age of ten. And to this day neither will hesitate to sit down to a bench rest with my Remington 700 in 25.06 and punctuate the 10 ring at 100 yards.
Point being, so much for the Liberal Left's intellectually insulting attempts to stereotype women, while limiting any debate about firearms ownership by inferring it's somehow entirely a symbol of red-necked, testosterone-charged male domination.
Clearly such does not even remotely reflect reality.
And, contrary to the nauseating blathering of Wendy Cukier and her uber-feminist Gun Haters R Us coalition, it never did.
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Good for her. The notion that women should somehow be afraid of guns, or against them, is backwards.
If the concern is protection against violence, nothing equalizes a woman with a much larger man than a gun that she knows how to use.
Or she can run, or hide, or hope that a "restraining order" help. But against a deranged individual these things are useless. Someone crazy enough to harm their spouse or girlfriend would hardly be stopped by a restraining order.
As for the police... all they can ever do is just get there in time to clean up the mess.
Kudos to Ms. Guergis.
AHEmmmm, it's Helena, your missing the H!
So much for the it's my womb lobby, how about the female... it's my gun lobby, I'd sign up for that one!
Ooops! When I dragged the mouse across the picture at MacLeans, the spelling came up "Elena".
Oh, well.
Guergis is not the type of woman who will want a government to tell her what she can and cannot do. she, like the rest of us women don't run to government everytime things go wrong.
What she will do though is improve women esteeme; let women make their own choices. Running to the government for every little nonsense is not the way to tackle your problems.
There are women who are in desparate need of help no doubt.
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