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Soccer Mom: She's just a 'mom who happens to carry a gun'... everywhere
pennlive ^ | Saturday December 27, 2008 | by MONICA VON DOBENECK

Posted on 12/27/2008 12:01:17 PM PST by JoeProBono

LEBANON PA--Some people have called Meleanie Hain a courageous defender of the Second Amendment. Others have referred to her in online forums as an "idiot" for taking her gun to her 5-year-old daughter's soccer game in Lebanon in September. Hain said she is "just a mom who happens to carry a gun ... everywhere."


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Society
KEYWORDS: banglist; gun; kook; pennsylvania; soccermom
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"No matter your viewpoint, there is no doubt Hain aroused a storm of controversy -- making headlines locally and nationally. Whenever The Patriot-News published a story about Hain on PennLive.com, dozens, sometimes hundreds, of readers weighed in.

Hain agreed to an interview by e-mail. Following is an edited synopsis:

Isabella Hain, 5, gives her mother, Meleanie Hain, a hug before heading onto the soccer field, Sept., 23, at Optimist Park in Lebanon, Pa.

1 posted on 12/27/2008 12:01:17 PM PST by JoeProBono
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To: JoeProBono

Only in America, I love this country. But for the gun experts, isn’t it dangerous to wear a gun in the open like this? Couldn’t someone just take it from behind you?


2 posted on 12/27/2008 12:08:16 PM PST by zarodinu
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To: JoeProBono
What part of CCW does she not understand?

While I am a proponent of open carry, this is the nonsense it leads to. I have a CCW and carry it concealed, everywhere.

Where does this woman live that allows open carry?

3 posted on 12/27/2008 12:13:18 PM PST by MrPiper
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To: MrPiper
Where does this woman live that allows open carry?

Pennsylvania as stated in the article.

L

4 posted on 12/27/2008 12:14:49 PM PST by Lurker ("America is at that awkward stage. " Claire Wolfe, call your office.)
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To: zarodinu
But for the gun experts, isn’t it dangerous to wear a gun in the open like this?

No, most are locked in place and you have to know which way to push/pull/twist, etc to get it out. She should be able to do cartwheels and it will stay there.

I'm all for it if the local deputy dogs would let you. They normally don't.

5 posted on 12/27/2008 12:16:15 PM PST by MrPiper
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To: zarodinu
Couldn’t someone just take it from behind you?

That's not nearly as easy with modern holsters. Plus I somehow don't think this woman is going to be too easy to sneak up on. Just a hunch.

I'm a big fan of open carry. It lets the bad guys no right away that they'll find easier pickings someplace else.

L

6 posted on 12/27/2008 12:16:23 PM PST by Lurker ("America is at that awkward stage. " Claire Wolfe, call your office.)
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To: JoeProBono

While showering? While making love?

Be careful with the word “everywhere”! :P


7 posted on 12/27/2008 12:17:34 PM PST by CE2949BB (MERRY CHRISTMAS!)
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“I’m a big fan of open carry. It lets the bad guys no right away that they’ll find easier pickings someplace else.”

Exactly. Who looks at that picture and thinks, “I bet I can threaten her.”


8 posted on 12/27/2008 12:19:37 PM PST by GoDuke
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To: JoeProBono
Q: Why did you carry a gun to the soccer game?

A: Like it or not, I do not have to validate myself to the public for my actions, ... I have come to the conclusion that this is an impossible task. It may sound arrogant, but ... the Constitution has guaranteed me a right, and there is nothing more to say about it. People who say, 'You do not need a gun at a soccer field,' ... I wonder if they could tell me when I will need it? That way I could just avoid that time and place.

You GO GIRL!!

L

9 posted on 12/27/2008 12:20:36 PM PST by Lurker ("America is at that awkward stage. " Claire Wolfe, call your office.)
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To: MrPiper

If you support open carry I could not tell it by you call someone doing so legally an idiot. Gunowners are their own worst enemy. Heck Gays never budge on their supposed rights and gunowner pee their pants.


10 posted on 12/27/2008 12:23:42 PM PST by therut
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To: MrPiper

Do you think it is wrong for police officers to carry openly?

What about the little 5’2” waifs they hire nowadays in the name of “diversity”? Are they really any more qualified than an armed citizen?


11 posted on 12/27/2008 12:26:52 PM PST by bornred
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To: CE2949BB
"While showering?"

Hell.Why not?


12 posted on 12/27/2008 12:28:21 PM PST by JoeProBono (I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma)
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To: JoeProBono

I’m planning on taking the Arizona Concealed Carry class this month. I’m also “just a mom”. Not sure that I’ll carry it everywhere, but I want to have the option available, legally.


13 posted on 12/27/2008 12:33:35 PM PST by ChocChipCookie (Homeschool like your kids' lives depend on it.)
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To: JoeProBono

This gal is exercising the most vital of our constitutional rights and yet contributors to this site and self-proclaimed “conservatives” seem uneasy, even embarrassed by her actions. Thank goodness there are people like her...that is, those who have the guts to actually do what far too many only pontificate about.


14 posted on 12/27/2008 12:35:26 PM PST by Oldpuppymax (AGENDA OF THE LEFT EXPOSED)
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To: Lurker
"I wonder if they could tell me when I will need it? That way I could just avoid that time and place."

Lancaster County, Pennsylvania

15 posted on 12/27/2008 12:38:07 PM PST by JoeProBono (I am learning all the time. The tombstone will be my diploma)
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To: therut
If you support open carry I could not tell it by you call someone doing so legally an idiot

First of all, I never called anyone an idiot, don't put words in my mouth, and if she was carrying concealed, she would not have the problem she has now. Thats why my state says, it must be concealed if carried.

She should, as many others have found out the hard way, contacted her local sheriff to see what "he who controls the permits" thought about it.

You have a perfectly legal right to go wandering around "the Hood" at 2am, but don't be surprised when you get knocked in the head.

And for the record, I don't believe you should have to have a license at all to fish, hunt, CCW. Its all just a tax.

16 posted on 12/27/2008 12:38:54 PM PST by MrPiper
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To: Lurker

I’m a big fan of open carry.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

I am too!

I applied for a conceal carry permit last month. It should arrive soon. I plan to carry my revolver or have beside my bed at all times.

I am already getting my wardrobe ready to fit the revolver.


17 posted on 12/27/2008 12:40:06 PM PST by wintertime
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MrPiper posted:
Thats why my state says, it must be concealed if carried.

marktwain replies:
I presume that your state is Alabama. If so, the attorney general has issued an opinion that open carry is legal and that no permit is required. See the link:

http://www.ago.state.al.us/oldopinions/8400205.pdf

However, a permit is required to carry a handgun in a vehicle.

18 posted on 12/27/2008 12:54:13 PM PST by marktwain
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To: Oldpuppymax
Very good post. Rights if left unexercised, wither away, much like muscles.

I applaud Meleanie Hain’s actions. I wish that many more will emulate her.

19 posted on 12/27/2008 12:56:24 PM PST by marktwain
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To: MrPiper

I support open carry although rarely do it myself. I believe firearms are more useful if they don’t know you have one.

That said the CCW is becoming a license to possess a firearm. That is wrong IMO. Its spreading the belief that you have to have a ‘license’ to carry a firearm. Soon it will be required to even own one.


20 posted on 12/27/2008 12:56:41 PM PST by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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