Jim DeMint's comments about his opposition to the Violence Against Women Act is pretty much the republican excuse for any no vote that would help or protect a woman or child. Letting the state handle it, when the state won't, is the dodge they have been using and getting away with for many years.
Basically, it doesn't matter where the tax dollars come from, DeMint is against it. And as far as victims of violence go, it's the 1950's, where a woman only gets raped if she's asking for it. The country as a whole may have rejected that backwards ideology in the last election, but let us never accuse our legislators here in South Carolina of being in touch with reality, or admitting they may be wrong.
I would imagine that a bill in our state legislature to fund handguns for women would go farther than one offering protection from violence.
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