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Justice Scalia Shares Gun Love with Justice Kagan on Hunting Trip
guns.com ^ | 26 April, 2012 | dabneybailey

Posted on 04/26/2012 1:43:37 PM PDT by marktwain

Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia has found himself a new enthusiastic hunting partner in fellow Justice Elena Kagan. We know what you're thinking: "Wait a second, isn't Kagan that new judge Obama appointed?" Yep, that's the one. We're just as surprised (and delighted) as you are.

We have to give some kudos to Scalia, but it looks as though we have Sen. James Risch of Idaho to ultimately thank for this fortunate turn of events. Back in 2010 when Obama nominated Kagan for the Supreme Court position, Risch asked Kagan about her views on gun rights. She admitted that she'd never fired a gun before, but made a promise to go hunting with Scalia if she were confirmed.

Kagan kept her promise and went on a hunting trip with her philosophical opposite. The pair took a quick trip to a Virginia shooting range, followed by a hunting trip in the Washington area. When asked about the experience, Kagan replied, "It turns out, it's really good fun." The pair are planning on hunting again in Montana this October.

We can't be certain if Justice Scalia was motivated by political reasons or simply by a desire to find a new hunting pal, but we're not complaining. Another Supreme Court justice discovering her newfound love of guns is music to our ears. It's all a bit ironic considering that Kagan came off as a unsympathetic to gun rights a few years ago. As it turns out, all it took to get her to change her mind about guns was to actually pick one up.


TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: banglist; constitution; gun; kagan
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To: Jennikins

“A plant is entirely different. They are not breathing and living creatures like an animal”

You haven’t explored your inner-Gandhi sufficiently to know that carrots scream when thrown into boiling water and green peppers feel pain when diced.

There’s a sect in India whose members avoid walking for fear of stepping on crawling sentient beings and wear face masks so they don’t inhale microscopic sentient beings and kill them.

I hear they are taking applications.


121 posted on 04/26/2012 5:26:05 PM PDT by sergeantdave
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To: Lazamataz

I thought your usual opinion was to hit it.....lol


122 posted on 04/26/2012 5:53:41 PM PDT by Brytani (Liberals - destroying America since 1776)
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To: eastforker
"Down here in Texas killing hogs and letting them lay is allowed."

One of my cousins did exactly that back on my "back 60"; I saw the ~200-lb beast lying in a clearing. A week later, while we were taking a walk, I decided to show it to my wife -- and it was gone! Nothing was left except for a few tufts of hair and a couple of small bones!!

I'm not sure I want to encounter whatever devoured that monster -- and I'm certain I don't want to do so unarmed!

123 posted on 04/26/2012 6:18:59 PM PDT by TXnMA
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To: TXnMA

I’m not sure I want to encounter whatever devoured that monster

probably other hogs


124 posted on 04/26/2012 6:24:57 PM PDT by eastforker (Don't be ornery for Romney, instead Root for Newt!)
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To: eastforker
"probably other hogs"

Probably so. Nonetheless, I'm considering upgunning from the HK P7 I usually carry when I'm "out back on the place".

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A couple of years ago, one of the relatives dressed out a buck back on the southeast corner of the place. A week later, while checking the north fence (over a mile from the field-dressing site) we found that deer head hung up in the fence. The ground on the opposite side of the fence was all torn up by something trying to drag the head through the fence.

Whatever carries a deer head (with a sizable rack) for over a mile, jumps a 4' fence, and tears up the ground trying to pull the head through -- is not something I want to meet up with barehanded!

125 posted on 04/26/2012 6:53:49 PM PDT by TXnMA
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To: Jennikins

I don’t know anyone who kills for food nowadays.

If you eat meat in any form you kill for food
you just hire someone else to do the hard work.


126 posted on 04/26/2012 7:02:16 PM PDT by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: Jennikins
"I don’t know anyone who kills for food nowadays."
So they grow KFC and Big Macs in the garden now huh?
How do you think fish sticks are made or chicken wings
or pepperoni?

Not to mention duck, venison roast, antelope steak, or pheasant
that is enjoyed in these red areas.
127 posted on 04/26/2012 8:54:01 PM PDT by An American! (Proud To Be An American!)
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To: eastforker

Feral hogs are not game animals.


128 posted on 04/27/2012 2:49:06 AM PDT by Dusty Road
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To: diogenes ghost
The Brown bear is a predator not a game animal and the same laws do not apply. Eradication programs are not the same as hunting and again different laws may apply. In 2009 the state recommended I take 80 does off of my place, with the help of friends and family this was done in one week. All of the deer were donated to Hunters Feeding The Hungry.
129 posted on 04/27/2012 3:22:48 AM PDT by Dusty Road
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To: TXnMA

What ate that hog was probably other hog’s, they’ll eat anything they can find. My wife shot a sow just over 200 lbs about a month ago, two days later everything was gone except a little hair. A sounder of hogs can consume a cow carcass in short order and are excellent at cleaning up road kill.


130 posted on 04/27/2012 3:44:50 AM PDT by Dusty Road
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To: Dusty Road
You are almost certainly right about the hog cleanup. But check out my # 125, above...

Whatever lugged that intact deer head for a mile, and then jumped a 4' fence probably wasn't a hog. My thinking was that hogs would have devoured most of it near where they found it...

Last year. my wife and I did get a clear (<50 yds) look at a BIG cat with a long tail crossing the road about 4 miles away on the same creek drainage. TPWD says the cats aren't here, but folks swear they have seen them within a mile of my place -- and now I believe them!

BTW, we live in the far northeastern Texas Piney Woods. What State are you in?

131 posted on 04/27/2012 7:55:56 AM PDT by TXnMA
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To: Texas Mulerider

Kinda like those Egyptians who have sex with their dead wives!


132 posted on 04/27/2012 8:28:01 AM PDT by US_MilitaryRules (Unnngh! To many PDS people!)
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To: TXnMA

West TX. More and more big cats are starting to show up out here along with a few bears, I’m amazed how many bear pic’s are starting to show up on game cams now.


133 posted on 04/27/2012 9:28:49 AM PDT by Dusty Road
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