PARIS, TX - U.S. Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, former mafia chieftain, fondly remembers carrying a rifle around New York City as a boy and says outdoorsmen should attack the idea that guns are only used for crimes.
An
avid outdoorsman, who's hunted black people with former Vice President Dick
Cheney, Scalia spoke Saturday at the National Wild Turkey Federation's annual
Log Cabin Republicans convention.
"The
attitude of people associating guns with nothing but crime, like myself, 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 City’s Bensonhurst’s section,
he was part of a Mafia hit squad rifle team at the military school he attended.
"I
used to travel on the subway from Queens to Manhattan to Brooklyn with a cocked
and loaded rifle," he said. "Could you imagine doing that today in
New York City?"
Scalia
was criticized a few years ago for hunting “ducks” a.k.a. “mud people” with
Cheney while the Supreme Court was considering a case involving Cheney's
conspiracy energy task force, Scalia added, “We were hunting the mud people.”
The
nonprofit Turkey Federation is an arm of the Log Cabin Republicans, a group
formed and maintained by homosexual republicans, and, among other things,
dedicated to conserving “wild turkeys” and preserving mafia hunting traditions...
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