Kagan Said She Was `Not Sympathetic' Toward Gun-Rights Claim

Source: Bloomberg News

Elena Kagan said as a U.S. Supreme Court law clerk in 1987 that she was “not sympathetic” toward a man who contended that his constitutional rights were violated when he was convicted for carrying an unlicensed pistol.

Kagan, whom President Barack Obama nominated to the high court this week, made the comment to Justice Thurgood Marshall, urging him in a one-paragraph memo to vote against hearing the District of Columbia man’s appeal.

The man’s “sole contention is that the District of Columbia’s firearms statutes violate his constitutional right to ‘keep and bear arms,’” Kagan wrote. “I’m not sympathetic.”

Kagan, currently the U.S. solicitor general, has made few public remarks about the Constitution’s Second Amendment. The Supreme Court in 2008 ruled, in a case that overturned the District of Columbia’s handgun ban, that the Constitution protects individual gun rights.

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The guy was carrying an unlicensed weapon in a place where he had to have a license. That is an illegal act and I am not sympathetic to the guy either.

The 2008 SCOTUS decision struck down banning handguns, not licensing them.

'She's a gun grabber---- ahhhh!'

That doesn't make Kagan 'anti-gun."


More propaganda.

Feh.

While most states don't require a permit, license or registration to purchase a gun a few do. But many states have restrictions on open carry in some form. It doesn't say where he was carrying the pistol. However he should have registerd it.

The McCain/Testor bill would repeal the city’s ban on semiautomatic weapons, authorize residents to buy guns and ammunition in Maryland and Virginia and repeal registration requirements, but many of the city councilmen there don't like it as well as the citizens. However they don't have voting rights either.

If he wanted to challenge the constitutionality of the law there were other ways to do it.
It's a nontroversy for me, and I'm pro-2nd.