"... and none in the rural areas makes a lot of sense.Yeah. Especially to all the rural women who are terrorized, and killed, by their firearms-wielding intimate partners.
I couldn't find whatever is being referred to regarding Strickland's rural/urban distinction proposal. But I do know this stuff.
http://community.palouse.net/atvp/Articles/RuralIssues.htmlRural Victims and Violence
17% of all homicides take place in rural areas between intimate partners
Intimate homicides make up a larger proportion of murders in rural areas than in suburban or urban areas
8 per 1,000 women in rural areas were victims of intimate partner violence between 1993-1998
A woman is battered every 9 seconds in the United States
(United States Department of Justice: Special Report 2002)
Isolation
Rural locations are often deliberately chosen by an abusive partner in order to increase the isolation and maintain control over their spouse or partner. By moving their partner to an isolated location, the abuser can reduce ties their partner may have had to friends and family, which may also prevent the victim from getting help. Abuse in rural areas is hidden more easily than in urban areas where the victim may be seen or heard during an abusive incident. Seclusion from neighbors and friends plays a significant role in the abuser maintaining control, as domestic violence is more easily kept under wraps when there is no one nearby to serve as a witness.
Poverty
17% of rural households live at or below the poverty level. Rural women have few economic options, and often lack employment of their own. If they do have a job, it's normally low paying, and therefore barely enough to survive on apart from the inclusion of the wage contributed by their partner.
http://www.users.qwest.net/~wyomingcoalition/aware/aw-ls201.pdfThere is a rural/urban difference in intimate homicides. While the rate has declined in cities, it has increased in rural areas. Intimate homicides made up a larger proportion of murders in
rural areas than in suburban or urban areas
"Gun control" can mean many things -- not just prohibitions on possession.
Registration of ownership of firearms is one measure that can enhance women's safety, since women at risk could request that their partners' firearms be forfeited while the risk persists (the highest risk period being when women are leaving abusive relationships), or permanently in the case of men who systematically use their firearms to intimidate and terrorize, or who abuse their partners and families while intoxicated with firearms in the home.
(Of course, this works only if there is no ready access to firearms off-registry, i.e. where private sales do not require registration or from the large stock of firearms already in illegal circulation in the US. So there's no point in even starting/trying; I know the words to the song.)
The decline of intimate homicides in urban areas in the US, while the rate rises in rural areas, is interesting. Urban areas are where firearms control measures are more likely to be in place, right?
Say ... they gots some fine Democrats in that Ohio.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/campaigns/keyraces98/stories/groundzero110598.htmLucas was the most aggressive Democrat in the region, if not the entire country, in asserting his conservative credentials. He boasted that he is a "compassionate conservative: pro-life, pro-gun and pro-business." By stressing his rightward stands on social issues and by contrasting his own military experience with the fact that Williams dropped out of the U.S. Naval Academy, Lucas could absorb the closing attack conducted by the Williams campaign and the national Republican Party.
Along similar lines, Rep. Ted Strickland (D-Ohio) fended off a challenge by Lt. Governor Nancy Hollister (R), who was backed up by nearly $1 million channeled by national GOP committees.
Strickland, running in a rural district where the Democratic label is a liability, ran ads declaring he "voted to ban partial-birth abortion" and cosponsored legislation protecting "Christians from persecution around the world," ... .
http://www.issues2000.org/OH/Ted_Strickland_Abortion.htmRated 30% by NARAL, indicating a pro-life <sic> voting record.
http://www.issues2000.org/OH/Ted_Strickland_Gun_Control.htmRated A by the NRA, indicating a pro-gun rights <sic> voting record.
I've always wondered; with Democrats like them, who needs ...?