Scalia takes Kagan to gun range, sources say ...

[spin]

Shooting buddies?

Scalia takes Kagan to gun range, sources say
By Alexis Levinson - The Daily Caller | Published: 12:00 AM 10/25/2010 | Updated: 9:17 AM 10/25/2010



According to two witnesses, Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia took fellow Justice Elena Kagan out for a lesson in skeet shooting at his shooting club in Virginia last week.

The witnesses saw Scalia at the Fairfax Rod and Gun Club, where he is a member, around noon on Wednesday of last week. He was with a woman who was noticeably diminutive in height, like Kagan, who stands at about five feet three inches. The witnesses, who got a very close look at the pair, say that the woman was the newest Supreme Court Justice.

Scalia was bending down in order to teach Kagan how to hold the shotgun, the witnesses say, and the pair were shooting skeet.

Kagan, who was nominated to the Supreme Court by President Obama in May and confirmed by the Senate in August, is generally believed to hold negative opinions toward the Second Amendment. The perception is based on a memo she penned in the eighties as Justice Thurgood Marshall’s law clerk, in which she said she was “not sympathetic” to the Second Amendment argument in a case that dealt with the District of Columbia’s gun laws. Also, during her time as a member of the Clinton administration, she played a role in instituting a temporary suspension of licenses for the importation of assault rifles. Kagan did not comment on the issue of gun rights during her confirmation hearings.
http://dailycaller.com/2010/10/25/scalia-takes-kagan-to-gun-range-sources-say/

[FiveGoodMen]

1. I'll bet they had an interesting conversation.

[katandmoon]

2. At the expense of the rest of us.

[PavePusher]

7. How so?

Care to elaborate a bit for a change, or are you merely once again taking cheap and innacurate shots?

[friendly_iconoclast]

10. Prohibitionists don't like people finding things out for themselves

It tends to lead to such incorrect thoughts as:

"Gee, I smoked marijuana when I was younger and I haven't become an AIDS-raddled junkie like they said I would"


"I drink on a regular basis and I've not become a homeless alcoholic hustling spare change to buy Steel Reserve"


Your interlocutor is afraid that the Hon. Justice Kagan might actually enjoy the sport and not be automatically afraid of teh ebil


skerry gunz.

[jazzhound]

11. With all of k&m's innaccurate shots we should count

our blessings that she'll never end up on a firing range!

[MicaelS]

8. Would you have said the same thing...

If he took her to a golf course?

[safeinOhio]

3. Too bad he didn't

take Cheney.

[spin]

4. Maybe the judge could teach Cheney a little gun safety. (n/t)

[DonP]

5. Heaven forbid - she might actually enjoy herself

Most people that try trap or skeet for the first time usually do, if they are introduced to the sport correctly.

But anytime someone that will make judgments that may impact the rest of us on the 2nd amendment actually gets some hands on experience, it's a good thing.

I have no doubt that a big part of the "field trip" included the requisite safety instructions and a lot of focus on the idea of leading the bird.

But he may have snuck in an explanation of those semi-auto shotguns some folk use and pointed out that they weren't really the "machine guns" some people tied to claim they were. That would be terrible - well at least for the Brady team that only thrive on ignorance.

[Blue Owl]

6. Kagan takes Scalia to softball batting cage

:silly:

[spin]

9. With her background in playing softball ...

she might become very good at skeet shooting.

[Up Quark]

12. Hey, at least skeet are in season!

;-)