Did Mr. Bruni mention what color dress he wore? I hope it matched the gun...perhaps a tasteful pearl necklace and pumps with mountain treads?
These liberals are a joke. They seem so suddenly fascinated by "manly" things like guns, dead birds, basketball coaches and scratching yourself on the mound. Bruni is the result of the past 50 years of liberal attempts to neuter the American male. They didn't make the team...Hell, they didn't even try out. They just sat next to Tiger Mommy and knocked real men and the things they do. Perhaps Bloomberg can give him a good strong hug to comfort him.
God I hope the "Grey Lady" dies soon. I really believe the world would be a better place without that rag.

WAM, Del, Buckhunter,
I am fine, a lot of logistical issues getting ready to head to Cameroon At my age my family has some misgivings of me heading back to the jungle there for the third time. Might add it will be my last foray to those lovely environs.

Say what? A Sunday hunting ban? Methinks golf would be more appropriate.

To Happy Myles: Good hunting, and don't get stomped or et.

OH, why in the world would you have to give up your original? I hope they give it back.

Mr. Bruni is clueless, totally without clues! He should stick to writing somthing he knows about.

Well done Dave!

MG

aferraro, I feel your pain. MD has their "blue laws" against hunting on Sundays. Hurts when they take away half your hunting time but at least we get a few Sundays a season, including opening weekend of firearms usually. As for the article I expect nothing better from an urbanite who goes on a canned hunt and tries to masquerade as a hunter.

Nice article DP! There are a very large number of metropolitan Americans who have been raised so far from reality that they believe their chickens were born in Saran Wrap. Many would be shocked to hear that chicken comes from a live bird and they actually have feathers. When it comes to defending our country from evil doers, they will be the first to let someone else get in line. The growing attitude is to let some dumb peon protect them... someone whose life has less value.

Many have never seen a gun and therefore they see no purpose in them. If they don't need them, no one does! Many believe that guns are for play and are too dangerous to warrant their continued use as a toy. God forbid, should we have to go to war, I'd sure hate to have to depend on someone like Mr. Bruni fighting next to me.

Bruni is obviously a far left metro-sexual who is very lucky he stumbled through his first "hunt" uninjured and without a serious disaster. He keeps trying to equate hunting to the Second Amendment, which is not what the 2nd A is about, at all, at all. I must confess, I was unable to read all of his drivel, my gag limit goes only so far, and I find I am less and less tolerant of fools and those who would push their preconceived notions of WHAT IS RIGHT on me.
DEP- Did you not wander off far, far into the field of satire when you proclaimed that Heavey is "not only a hell of a writer, but is really a hunter, and Gets It about as well as anyone has ever Gotten It"?

I have read both articles; and like a lot of others here I think Bill Heavey's article is excellent. It is the description of a hunt told by a hunter. Mr. Bruni's article is clearly an article about hunting from someone who not only is not a hunter but someone who knows nothing about guns. I think he described his experience. I also noticed at the end of the article that he was willing to do it again. Isn't that what we want? I have an issue with him being allowed to handle guns without knowing how to do it safely. I can appreciate that to a "green horn" the experience was loud, a little scary and at times he couldn't tell what was going on. I think a big part of the problem many people have with guns is ignorance. When properly introduced to guns a lot of people will find them less intimidating. I find it interesting that the New York Times included both articles in the same issue.

The reason the polling on universal background checks is so unusally high, is because asking someone if they're for such checks, is like asking them if they're in favor of puppies and kittens.

However, once your stuck with them, you realize very fast, that puppies and kittens crap all over the place.

Excellent response to a bad column! Except that it's the Benelli Vinci, not a Beretta

The NYT has had some pretty spectacular flops when writing about things gun or hunting. That one was way up there, maybe the worst I can remember. My hope is that PA requires a hunters safety card and license even on preserves and he gets busted.

Bill Heavy's article was about the best I've ever read there.

I'm amazed that after only one day of preserve "hunting" and a single experience with firearms that he has gained a full grasp of issues related to hunting and 2nd ammendment rights, truly an amazing accomplishment.[note extreme levels of sarcasm]

Seriously though, I don't know where to start tearing this article apart. He notes how easy it is to kill a bird but doesn't seem to understand that there is a big difference between a farm raised chukar and its wild counterpart. He obviously doesn't know that hunters ed classes even exist. And if he truly felt that he was entrusted with a gun too easily then his high convictions would have dictated that he decline the offer to use the gun without whatever he may feel is proper training.

It was especially rediculous that he criticizes how a firearm can be subjected to romance and fetishism as if it were similar to his beloved rolex and loafers.

Yeah, he didn't hunt. Those pen raised pheasant can barely fly. I guess it is as close to instant gratification as you can get while still saying you hunted. Can't post a link to the whole article because apparently it is obscene. It is easy to find, I just googled Frank Bruni hunts... quite an eye opener.

I am astounded whenever I get a glimpse of how the people in NYC really view the world. It is such a narrow view and there are close to 9 million people all sitting on top of each other with the same mindset. Here's a fat, gay, sleeping pill addicted food editor and he is suddenly New York's authority on hunting. God save us all.

Seriously guys...people like Bruni don't get it, they never have and never will. That being said, why do we even care what a urban girlyman like him feels about hunting, the 2nd ammendment or our constitutional rights? He was playing to his audience, using the same emotionally-based rhetoric and invective the left is known for, because that's all they have. His description of the Benelli he was using ("as much an accessory as an instrument of death...")is laughable because it reveals beyond question his depth of understanding or the conspicuous lack thereof. I've been hunting and shooting for the majority of my 43+years and never once did I ever consider my rifle, pistol or shotgun an "accessory". You can almost see this sad joke dressed in a grand worth of Fillson upland gear that still smells brand new, tiptoeing through the brush, afraid of stepping through a spiderweb or getting something in his hair.
See? I just used a bunch of denigrating rhetoric, meant to paint the subject in an unfavorable light. You know that's how the other side plays, and despite their best efforts they're really not gaining any ground, because the NY Times and all the other leftist rags ain't the only game in town, nor are their broadcast buddies at NBC, CBS, ABC, CNN, etc. The fact that we're on this website, discussing it in this manner is proof positive of it.

I think this is an ongoing problem with a number of media people. This person goes hunting once in his lifetime and fires a shotgun for the first time. At this point he now feels that he has the experience to voice his opinion on magazine capacity, what type of firearm is appropriate for the game being hunted, and the ethics and philosophical significance of hunting. How could I have been so blind all these years.

Buckhunter,

Have you heard from Happy Myles lately?

Saw a post from Happy last week.

Del, Buckhunter

Must have missed it.

Good article, but if 92 percent of Americans believed in "no guns at all" we would not be allowed to own guns. The stat you are referring to is talking about universal background checks for purchasing firearms. Supporting universal background checks doesn't means you think no one should own a gun.

Bruni had made up his mind about what he wanted to write and THEN went out and tried "hunting," if shooting at a game preserve at pen-raised birds is hunting. (Clue: it's not.)

He criticizes hunting because, in his view, many hunters don't always hunt ethically. That's like criticizing Christianity because many Christians don't live up to the teachings in the Bible.

Happy, good hunting, traveling mercies, and God speed. Don't forget, I still want an autographed copy of your book.

I think Gun Nuts writing about liberals is like...well Mr. Bruni writing about hunting!