Gun Crusaders : The NRA's Culture War / Scott Melzer.
Melzer, Scott, author.
2009
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Title Gun Crusaders : The NRA's Culture War / Scott Melzer.
Author Melzer, Scott, author.
ISBN 9780814759509
DOI https://doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9780814759509.001.0001
Published New York, NY : : New York University Press, [2009]
Copyright ©2009
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource
Other Standard Identifiers 10.18574/nyu/9780814759509.001.0001 doi
Summary 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.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Preface
Introduction
PART I Defending Guns, Defending Masculinity
1 Frontier Masculinity, America's "Gun Culture," and the NRA
2 Why a Gun Movement?
PART II Talking Guns, Talking Culture War
3 Framing Threats to Gun Rights
4 Under Attack
5 Fighting the Culture Wars
PART III Committing to the NRA, Committing to the Right
6 The Politics of Commitment
7 Right and Far-Right Moral Politics
8 The Ties That Bind
Epilogue
Appendix
Notes
Index
About the Author

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