CNN) -- A Pennsylvania soccer mom was chatting with a friend via webcam when she was shot to death by her husband, who then went upstairs and shot himself, police said Friday.

Pistol-packing soccer mom Meleanie Hain was shot dead while chatting with a friend on a webcam, police said.

Meleanie Hain, 31, made national headlines last year as the mother who carried a loaded, holstered handgun to her 5-year-old daughter's soccer game.

She was found dead in her Lebanon, Pennsylvania, home along with her husband, Scott Hain, 33, on Wednesday evening, Lebanon police said.

Hain was in her kitchen talking with a friend via webcam just before her death, police said. Watch why Hain caused controversy »

The friend, who police will not name, was looking away from the computer screen when he heard a shot and a scream, police said. He turned back to the monitor, he told police, and no longer saw Meleanie Hain but instead saw Scott Hain firing several rounds from a handgun toward where his wife had been.

Police said that the woman's body had already fallen to the floor by the time the friend turned back to the screen.

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Scott Hain then went upstairs to a bedroom, where he shot himself in the head with a 12-gauge shotgun, police said.

Meleanie Hain was shot several times with a 9 mm handgun, police said. Her fully loaded 9 mm handgun was found in her backpack hanging on the back of the front door.

The couple's three children were home at the time of the killings, police Capt. Daniel Wright said. They were unharmed and took refuge at a neighbor's house before police arrived, he said.

Investigators have confiscated the webcam and computer, but cannot review what the friend says he saw because the online conversation was not recorded.

The death of the couple came four months after Meleanie Hain told her attorney she was separating from her husband, her attorney, Matthew B. Weisberg, told CNN Thursday. However, police said the couple still appeared to be living together.

Meleanie Hain drew media attention on September 11, 2008, when she carried a Glock strapped to her belt to her daughter's soccer game.

Nine days later her permit to carry a gun was revoked by Lebanon County Sheriff Michael DeLeo, who claimed she showed poor judgment by wearing the weapon to a child's game. County Judge Robert Eby later reinstated the permit.

This article explains exactly why gun rights advocates completely miss the boat on the topic of self-defense.

Statistics, often cited indicate that for ever person killed by a stranger, dozens and dozens of people are killed by people they know. The myth of stranger violence and concealed-carry laws explodes into flames against the reality.

This article says it all.

Starbucks and the "short" cappucino

Starbucks apparently has a "short" cappucino that mirrors the real thing. For those of you unaware of the reality, Starbucks doesn't actually make a cappucino. What they make is a latte. If there is significantly more milk than espresso in the drink, it reduces the amount of actual coffee flavor, which is the primary purpose of the cappucino.

Having spoken with a manager of Starbucks, he admitted that indeed, their equipment simply doesn't make it properly. The temperature is too high and overcooks the milk. In order to do it properly, they have to work with their equipment. It doesn't do it automatically the way they do it at Peets.

My answer was to always order the drink, but ask for it "extra-dry". Even then you will often by subjected to a giant, heavy cup of milk.

If you pick up a cappucino, as I have stated previously, and it is HEAVY from the solid milk, instead of light from foam, you have been offically "milked" as I call it. There isn't any excuse for it. It's simply a typical American bastardization of a very good thing from another place.

There are things we do better than the Italians. Pizza, for example. Coffee? Shoes? Nope.

NO wonder the peace process is sluggish.

Having strong opinions without the brains to back them up makes you look not very smart.

Karate, body conditioning and the Makiwara

A recent debate on the website bullshido.com piqued my interest in a traditional Okinawan practice. Karate practitioners in very hard styles of karate will pound their fists into boards, condition their shins and arms with wood or other surfaces, in an attempt to harden the bones. This supposedly makes the karate practitioner more effective in combat.

The subject is a matter of controversy and there isn't really a lot of scientific evidence

Escrima and alcohol do not mix....