Gun crusaders : the NRA's culture war / Scott Melzer.

• Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part 1: Defending Guns, Defending Masculinity -- 1: Frontier masculinity, America's "gun culture," and the NRA -- 2: Why a gun movement? -- Part 2: Talking Guns, Talking Cutlure War -- 3: Framing threats to gun rights -- 4: Under attack -- 5: Fighting the culture wars -- Part 3: Committing To THe NRA, Committing To The Right -- 6: Politics of commitment -- 7: Right and far-right moral politics -- 8: Ties that bind -- Epilogue: Tomorrow's NRA -- Appendix: Studying the NRA -- Notes -- Index -- About the author.

• From the Publisher: Nothing conjures up images of the American frontier and a pick-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps view of freedom and independence quite like guns. Gun Crusaders is a fascinating inside look at how the four-million member National Rifle Association and its committed members come to see each and every gun control threat as a step down the path towards gun confiscation, and eventually socialism. Enlivened by a rich analysis of NRA materials, meetings, leader speeches, and unique in-depth interviews with NRA members, Gun Crusaders focuses on how the NRA constructs and perceives threats to gun rights as one more attack in a broad liberal cultural war. Scott Melzer shows that the NRA promotes a nostalgic vision of frontier masculinity, whereby gun rights defenders are seen as patriots and freedom fighters, defending not the freedom of religion, but the religion of individual rights and freedoms. 

Ämnesord

Vapeninnehav  (sao)

Gun control  -- United States. (LCSH)

Firearms ownership  -- United States. (LCSH)

Firearms ownership  (LCSH)

Förenta staterna  (sao)

Institutionsnamn

National Rifle Association of America.

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HV7436 (LCC)

323.43 (DDC)

Oc.01 (kssb/8 (machine generated))