Little Raven
On Walkabout
And as usual, she's cranky.
A gun is a serious tool. I'm not sure everyone who gets one understands that.
I'll leave it to the statisticians to argue about how guns kill 4.57 children every minute vs how they prevent 7.42 x 10^13 crimes every day. But regardless of where you fall in that debate, I suspect you believe that people who carry guns have a duty to treat them appropriately and handle them responsibly. Meleanie Hain (and presumably, her husband) showed some pretty flawed judgment in that regard, and while that certainly doesn't justify her death, it goes a long way towards explaining it.A soccer mom who gained national attention when she openly carried a loaded gun to her 5-year-old daughter's game was shot dead Wednesday along with her husband in what appeared to be a murder-suicide, police said.
Meleanie Hain and Scott Hain were pronounced dead Wednesday night at their home in Lebanon, about 80 miles west of Philadelphia.
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Meleanie Hain made headlines after she attended a children's soccer game in a park on Sept. 11, 2008, with a handgun in plain view holstered on her hip, upsetting other parents.
The county sheriff, Michael DeLeo, revoked her gun-carrying permit nine days later.
Hain successfully appealed the permit revocation, although the judge who restored the permit questioned her judgment and said she had "scared the devil" out of other people at the game.
A gun is a serious tool. I'm not sure everyone who gets one understands that.