More Scalia on guns
Good:
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia fondly remembers carrying a rifle around New York as a boy and says outdoorsmen should attack the idea that guns are used only for crimes.
[unnecessary reference to Cheney hunting removed – what media bias?]
“The attitude of people associating guns with nothing but crime, that is what has to be changed,” Scalia told the audience of about 2,000.
“I grew up at a time when people were not afraid of people with firearms,” said Scalia, noting that as a youth in New York he was part of a rifle team at the military school he attended.
February 27th, 2006 at 8:53 pm
I’m with Scalia. I grew up in D.C., and back in the early ’60s, every other Friday afternoon when I got home from school, I’d grab my .22 target rifle and some ammo, put the bolt in my pocket, and ride the L-4 or L-2 bus – yes, that’s public transit – to Dupont Circle, walk the four blocks to the NRA building with it slung on my shoulder and shoot with the Pinwheel Junior Rifle Club on the NRA basement range. If I couldn’t get a ride back home when we were done around 9:30-10:00 PM, I reversed the trip. Did that for almost a year without the rifle being cased, except for wrapping it in plastic if it was raining, until my father gave me a case for Christmas. Never got hassled once. Imagine a 13 year-old kid today trying that.