Her backpack, with a fully-loaded glock therein, was but a few feet from her body.

Interesting that she felt the need to carry at a little kids’ soccer game because of possible domestic violence issues with the husband. The soccer coach who turned her in is said to have known her, but he didn’t know of her marital issues? Some people say he knew or should have known and, due to him being the chief public defender in Lebanan County, should have made a referal to the county agency responsible for reaching out to women in troubled relationships.

Instead, he complained to the county sheriff. And we all know how that went. Seems like Charlie Jones either did not know the law or turned his back on the law. But he now wants a seat on the bench in the Court of Common Pleas.

Shouldn’t a judicial candidate know the law? Did his apparent lack of knowledge contribute to the events which lead to Meleanie Hain losing her life?

So… looks like the overzealous parent she should have been worried about was living in her own home. And, bonus, the kids get to see gun violence up close and personal.

You’re getting blood on your socks,darling.

Maybe you could send that as an email to the children?

And I would add that for those who are actually doing the dancing, there is no excuse because just like there’s no official confirmation that he shot her first, there’s not confirmation that their assumptions are correct, either.

That said, I find the people who are dancing in the blood of the slain quite repugnant.

Her lawyer is now talking to the press and indicating that she at least looked into a restraining order, though it appears she never sought one. Maybe that will tone down some of the comments since it’s not clear to people who haven’t Googled for more information that she wasn’t the shooter. Whether we like it or not, the fact that she conducted many interviews as an advocate, there is simply more information about her being attached to guns. There wasn’t much available for early reports about the husband because he avoided the media.

Just wanted to make sure there was no confusion.

I fail how any reasonable person could claim that the victim was more likely to be murdered by her husband because she owned firearms. Even if someone could make a claim (and indeed, I’ve seen the claim made several times in the various comments of the PennLive article), I fail to see how any reasonable person could possibly believe it.

I’ve seen people claim that if Melaine didn’t own firearms, she likely would have been alive today. This makes very little sense to me.

Clearly, the blame should rest soundly on the perpetrator of the crime and not on the material possessions of the victim.

It does bolster some of their claims in regards to gun possession, arguments for which are no doubt forthcoming.

I don’t see how. Mrs. Hain is…was a law-abiding person. As far as I can tell, she’s done nothing wrong. Last time I checked, open-carry in PA is perfectly legal, even at soccer games. Her open-carrying may have perturbed some people, but there’s nothing illegal about that, nor really anything to feed to the anti-gun groups.

Her husband, on the other hand, was in a position of authority and — based on admittedly thin information — seems to have used his authority to cause harm. Since the anti-gun groups tend to claim that nobody except the police and military need guns, I can’t imagine that they’d have much to go on in this case.

That said, I grieve greatly for the Hain family. This is a bad situation all around.

This is bad for the gun community because it seems a case of live by the gun and die by the gun. But she being disarmed would not have helped either.

She may have become more confident and less controlled as she developed and he resented it, if he was controlling type. I know that a lot of police officers do kill or abuse their families. Partially high stress and they get used to being obeyed and lose their temper when family won’t.

We better stand together and support her OC choices since this will be used against us as the unsteady people who should not be trusted with gunsargumnet will arise.

Ironic on several levels.