Kagan "not sympathetic" to individual right to own guns

This is not a surprise. So much for Obama promise that he supports and individual's right to own guns.

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.” . . .

There is a pattern here with Sotomayor (here and here). Some earlier pieces that I wrote on Obama and guns are here and here.