"She had it coming because of her lifestyle."

"Lie down with dogs, get up with fleas."

Those sentiments are despicable when applied to a woman who is raped. But it's apparently OK to feel that way if instead of being raped, the woman is is shot in the back by a rogue law enforcement officer in her own kitchen, while unarmed and talking on her webcam.

That mother of three kids who was murdered by a misogynist loser with a badge this week didn't "have it coming" because she owned a gun herself (a gun that wasn't even in the room with her). She was murdered by an abusive loser with an authority complex, and the murder weapon may have been department issued; it certainly wasn't hers.

I realize that one can have strong feelings against gun ownership by non-LEO's; I get that. What I DON'T get is people dancing gleefully in her blood and saying she brought it on herself, when her gun ownership had nothing to do with her death. Had she been a gun control activist who believed that only people in law enforcement, like her husband, should have access to guns, this would have played out exactly the same way. He would have still had access to a gun, and she would still have been as unarmed as she was.


RIP, Melanie Hain. I disagreed with you on your politics and your style on the gun issue, but you deserved better than this. Praying for your kids.