Gun-Toting Soccer Mom, Husband Shot Dead

[fatvette]

This is the type of stuff we don't need...


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LEBANON, Pennsylvania — 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, a small city about 80 miles west of Philadelphia.
The couple's three children were home at the time but weren't hurt, police said. They were taken to stay with friends and relatives.
Meleanie Hain, 31, and Scott Hain, 33, had been having marital problems for about a week, neighbor Mark Long said. Scott Hain had left the couple's home on Tuesday, and Meleanie Hain didn't know where he was, but he returned Wednesday, Long said.
Autopsies on the Hains were to be conducted Thursday, coroner Dr. Jeffrey Yocum said.
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.

Hain sued DeLeo in federal court, alleging that he violated her constitutional rights and prosecuted her maliciously when he took the permit away. She said that because of his actions her baby-sitting service had suffered, her children had been harassed and she had been ostracized by her neighbors in Lebanon, which has about 25,000 residents.
DeLeo said at Hain's appeal that he revoked her permit after fielding the parents' complaints. He said he based his decision on a state law that prohibits certain gun permits from being given to anyone whose character and reputation make him or her a danger to public safety.
After Hain sued DeLeo, the Brady Center to Prevent Gun Violence, which says it tries to reform the gun industry through sensible regulations, offered to defend him for free.
"It is a case that calls out for common sense," Brady Center attorney Daniel Vice said then. "It's ridiculous to bring a gun to a child's soccer game."
A court hearing on Hain's $1 million lawsuit was postponed in May after an attorney in the case was involved in a traffic accident.

[Annie]

Originally Posted by fatvette

This is the type of stuff we don't need...

No lie.

It didn't say who did what, but the shooter was one stupid selfish b***h either way.
Orphan your kids, crap on everybody who had your back, leave all your family and friends grieving, let everybody else deal with the storm you created.
Idiots. Morons. Fricken blankity blanks.

[melensdad]

Just reinforces the stereotype that all gun owners are violent unsophisticated Bubbas (and Bubbette's)

[Mgderf]

Originally Posted by Annie

No lie.

It didn't say who did what, but the shooter was one stupid selfish b***h either way.
Orphan your kids, crap on everybody who had your back, leave all your family and friends grieving, let everybody else deal with the storm you created.
Idiots. Morons. Fricken blankity blanks.

You took the words right out of my mouth!

[IndyGunworks]

does it seem suspicious to anyone else, that the hearings were postponed because the judge was in a car accident, and then a muder suicide? seems to me like the guys at brady might have a little blood on their hands on this one.

[Pami]

Originally Posted by IndyGunworks

does it seem suspicious to anyone else, that the hearings were postponed because the judge was in a car accident, and then a muder suicide? seems to me like the guys at brady might have a little blood on their hands on this one.

I don't know about the Brady's being the ones pulling the strings, but yeah, I had the same thought.


But then again, she might actually have been unstable and the sheriff might have been absolutely right to revoke her license, too.

[Annie]

Originally Posted by Pami

But then again, she might actually have been unstable and the sheriff might have been absolutely right to revoke her license, too.

Hmm...interesting point. Was all of her previous story just in text or was there any video of her (interview or candid) anywhere?

[Indecision]

Rediculous. I hate reading about stuff like this.

[Chefcook]

I grew up just south of Lebanon Pa. in Lancaster Pa. My father and I deer, turkey and small game hunted around Lebanon most of my young adult life, as a matter of fact my first rifle was purchased at Wolf's gun shop in Lebanon Pa. This is a very rural area, a very large part of the county is comprised of state game lands #156, #225 and #46 and this is where I hunted for many years, I know the area like the back of my hand. Unfortunately I must say there are a lot of unsophisticated Bubbas and Bubbette's to be found there.

After having been gone from there for many years it sometimes surprises me the crazy azz that goes on there. Or maybe it doesn't... I was shot at one time in state game land #156 for no apparent reason at all,(I had plenty of orange on.) When my father and I would scout for places to hunt we always looked for a rock outcropping of some sort where we could find cover if necessary. As the sun would come up first day, it was typical to see orange becoming visible all over the place, if had come a Deer, a perfect crossfire would have commenced. It was pretty commonplace to later that day see multiple pickup trucks parked at the bars along the highway with deer roped over the hoods whilst the hunters found livation to warm their toes. This almost seemed more like a way to show off the trophy than to warm toes as many would still remain come nightfall. This seemed the tradition even though it rewarded them with a frozen deer carcass that was contorted to the contour of the vehicle hood and hard to hang. I guess what I mean to say is that this happening there doesn't surprise me all that much.

[shooter521]

Found out about this a couple hours after it happened. Melanie was an acquaintance of an instructor friend of mine; he reported sitting and chatting with her at a birthday party last Saturday. Her husband, Scott, was an LEO, and was scheduled to take a class on fingerprinting and notary work from my friend this weekend.

Needless to say, the whole thing came as a complete shock; my friend said he had no idea Scott was capable of such a heinous act.

Prayers for the victims and those left behind.