Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan told law students at Marquette University in Wisconsin that while she had no experience with guns before being tapped to the Supreme Court, since then Antonin Scalia has taken her hunting several times and she's found it to be great fun. "He made a huntress out of me. He insists I'm going to shoot myself an antelope." So far Kagan and Scalia have shot pheasant and quail, and they plan to go after bigger game out West this fall.Typically, New York City Jews do not have a lot of hands-on experience with guns, so when she recently told a synagogue about her hunting trips with Scalia her host at the synagogue was quite surprised. "You're Jewish," deadpanned Rabbi Mitchell Wohlberg. "Yeah, but it turns out, it's kind of fun," said Kagan, laughing, who is (I kid you not) a graduate of Hunter College.
Guns as culture is something I have had the opportunity to explain to a lot of Jewish lawyers over the years. "It's like a southern bar mitzvah," I explain. "At 13 you get a .22 or a .410 shotgun or a .20 gauge. Even if you never hunt, in some parts of the south it's a family ritual -- a coming of age kind of thing." As soon as I say it this way, all opposition fades and understanding begins to grow..
As for Kagan, it seems like only yesterday that Fox News and everyone else on the right was saying she was going to grab everyones guns. Who knew it was going to be to go shooting?
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