Renfrew County is Ontario’s biggest county; it covers more than 7,000 square kilometres…. There is just one women’s shelter in this vast area, meaning that it might take a woman an hour or more to get there. That assumes she has access to a vehicle, because there’s no public transportation system. There aren’t a lot of family law practitioners, almost none outside the urban areas. Cell service is intermittent. There are just four Ontario Provincial Police detachments to monitor the county, so police response times can be long. One thing there are plenty of is guns, mostly long guns of one kind or another. While they usually have a legitimate purpose, those firearms are also used by abusers to threaten and terrify their partners and, sometimes, to kill them.