Guns and values : individualism in the American gun debate / Dylan S. McLean, Anthony K. Fleming.
McLean, Dylan S., author.; Fleming, Anthony K., author.
2023
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Title
Guns and values : individualism in the American gun debate / Dylan S. McLean, Anthony K. Fleming.
Author
McLean, Dylan S., author.
ISBN
9783031371745 (electronic bk.)
3031371747 (electronic bk.)
9783031371738
3031371739
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37174-5
Published
Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (vii, 231 pages)
Item Number
10.1007/978-3-031-37174-5 doi
Call Number
HV7436
Dewey Decimal Classification
363.330973
Summary
The American gun control debate is best understood as a battle in a war over the influence of individualism on American culture, politics, and policy. This book demonstrates that the gun debate is fundamentally about values. Specifically, it is about what we value most: private rights, or the public good. This helps explain why the technical, empirical, or legalistic arguments we hear arent persuasive. A review of scholarly literature on both the politics of gun control and American political culture finds an American bias toward an individualism that embraces personal rights. We argue that this bias stacks the deck against gun control. Interviews we conducted with activists show that support for, or opposition to, gun control is linked to concern for the public, or private, good. Finally, we trace the federal gun control debate in Washington from the 1960s to 2010s to show the ebbs and flows of individualisms influence. Dylan S. McLean, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of West Georgia. Anthony K. Fleming, Associate Professor of Political Science, University of West Georgia.
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Fleming, Anthony K., author.
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Intro
Contents
1 Introducing the Gun Fight and Values
Values Motivate the Gun Fight
Plan of the Book
Our Aim, and the Limits of Our Scope
References
2 Gun Battles and Cultural Warfare
Gun Control in the U.S.
Gun Policy Overview
Public Opinion on Gun Control
Political Parties & Gun Control
Race & Gun Control
Gun Control Interest Groups
Explaining the Politics of Gun Control in the U.S.
Second Amendment
Political Institutions
The Challenges of Social Regulation?
Culture
Political Culture as One Factor

Distinct American Political Culture Is Comparatively Central
Gun Control Debate as a Cultural Proxy War
Guns and Values
American Gun Culture & American Values
Gun Controllers: Searching for Cultural Resonance
Framing Their Debate
American Political Culture
Lockean Consensus?
Individualism(s)
Communitarian Challenge
Individualism: How It Influences Our Debates
Cultural Conclusion: Private Rights, Public Goods
Theory: Gun Battles, Cultural Warfare
References
3 Activists at the Grass Roots of Gun Politics
The Activists
Gun Rights Activists and Guns

Gun Control Activists and Guns
Policy Advocacy
Fearing Lenient Gun Control and Defending New York's Restrictive Laws
Attacking New York's Restrictive Gun Control and Longing for the Policies of "Free States"
The Car Analogy: Driving with Freedom, Punishment, and the Common Good
Tools or Values? Gun Use Versus Meaning
Guns as Cherished Symbols of Core American Political Values
Guns: Objects to Regulate
Contrasting Worldviews
Rugged Individualists-Powerful Citizens and Weak Government
Members of Society
Cultural Warfare
The Consequences of Cultural Contrasts

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