{"id":198,"date":"2005-04-04T09:34:49","date_gmt":"2005-04-04T17:34:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2005\/04\/what_karl_rove_hath_wrought.html"},"modified":"2008-01-25T13:57:59","modified_gmt":"2008-01-25T18:57:59","slug":"what_karl_rove","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2005\/04\/what_karl_rove.html","title":{"rendered":"What Karl Rove Hath Wrought"},"content":{"rendered":"

In Manhattan, where guns and steak are now “quirky,”<\/a> the red-state revolution is nearly complete:<\/p>\n

Among the artifacts hanging on the basement walls of the Westside Rifle and Pistol Range in Chelsea – frontier reward posters, a “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” blurb about a stylish, bulletproof suit – is a picture of Robert De Niro in “Taxi Driver,” sighting down the barrel of a pistol in a scene filmed at this very range.<\/p>\n

Used to be, a vigilante psycho had someplace to go in this town, somewhere to practice. Pity Travis, then, were he to walk into the range on a Tuesday night last month and find Gina DeMasi, 25, a SoHo bartender, decked out in a cowboy hat, shiny belt buckle and tight blue jeans tucked into her boots.<\/p>\n

Dianne Mackley, her friend from MercBar, was also outfitted \u00c3\u00a0 la prairie party girl. Across the room a group of middle-aged men in trucker hats, members of the Chelsea Gun Club, quietly ate McDonald’s takeout and cast periodic glances at the interlopers.<\/p>\n

“I like things that are quirky,” Ms. DeMasi said. Then a gunshot boomed from the next room, and she flinched.<\/p>\n

. . .<\/p>\n

An instructor gave each student a .22-caliber rifle, helped the students load the guns with a 10-round magazine, and led them to the range with its 16 stalls. The shooters clipped targets to a rope that swept the paper downrange with the turn of a crank. The smell of cordite soon grew thick, and the spent shell casings clinked off the counter and walls and floor and shoes.<\/p>\n

When they were finished, they took their targets and walked outside to hail a cab for Frank’s.<\/p>\n

“I do need a drink,” Ms. DeMasi said in the back seat.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Manhattan, where guns and steak are now “quirky,” the red-state revolution is nearly complete: Among the artifacts hanging on the basement walls of the Westside Rifle and Pistol Range in Chelsea – frontier reward posters, a “Ripley’s Believe It or Not” blurb about a stylish, bulletproof suit – is a picture of Robert De […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sunday_styles_articles_that_make_you_want_to_flee_new_york"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}