You get one drink and one snack, Got It!

As the parent of a 5 year-old who plays soccer, I realize how important it is to bring enough snacks and drinks when it's your turn. Nothing feels worse than buying a box of 10 Capri-Suns but having 12 kids on the team. The two kids who didn't get anything are being consoled by their parents who are looking at you like; "WTF?! cheapass spend the extra $3.00 and buy enough for everyone."

Then there is the inevitable conversation on the way home from the field, usually consisting of phrases like,

"Didn't you know how many kids were on the team?"

"Who cares if her younger brother wanted one, just give the kid one so he doesn't have a meltdown" or

"Damnit, it's one thing to be cheap at dinner, this is our daughter we're talking about, I'm not sure if I can show my face at practice on Wednesday"

Well, Meleanie Hain of Lebanon, PA has the solution, carry your handgun to the field with you, specifically your Glock 26. Sais Hain; " I’m just a soccer mom who has always openly carried (a firearm), and I’ve never had a problem before,“I don’t understand why this is happening to me."

Let me help you Meleanie. You brought a firearm to your child's soccer game, and even though you have a permit for it and I'm sure you can handle it, there are too many little children around and their parents are very uncomfortable seeing a gun around their kids. I have no problem with you carrying a gun and I applaud the fact that you have a permit and are following the law but let's be a little understanding of others.

According to the Times-Leader; "A woman’s concealed-weapons permit was revoked after other parents complained about seeing her carrying a loaded handgun at her 5-year-old daughter’s soccer game. Meleanie Hain, of Lebanon, said she takes her holstered Glock 26 everywhere for personal security and is fighting the revocation by the Lebanon County sheriff.
“I’m just a soccer mom who has always openly carried (a firearm), and I’ve never had a problem before,” Hain said in Wednesday’s editions of the Lebanon Daily News. “I don’t understand why this is happening to me.”
She declined a request by The Associated Press for comment through her attorney, Robert Magee, of Allentown.
Youth soccer coach Charlie Jones said he approached Hain at the Sept. 11 game and asked her to move to the other side of the field, away from the sideline where the children were standing, after hearing that some parents were upset at seeing her gun.
“More than one parent was upset,” he told the newspaper.
Hain later received a notice that her permit was being revoked by Sheriff Michael DeLeo.
DeLeo cited a section of state law that bars the issuance of concealed-weapons permits to people who are deemed a danger to public safety based on their character and reputation. Hain showed poor judgment by wearing her gun at the game, he said.
DeLeo said he understood his decision would now force Hain to keep her weapon in plain view whenever she carries it, but revoking her concealed-weapons permit was his only recourse because he could not legally confiscate her gun.
Hain later received a notice that her permit was being revoked by Sheriff Michael DeLeo.

http://www.timesleader.com/news/Toting_gun_at_soccer_costs_mom_her_permit_09-24-2008.html