TY  - GEN
AB  - 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.
AU  - Melzer, Scott, 
DO  - 10.18574/nyu/9780814759509.001.0001
DO  - doi
ID  - 1479903
JF  - New York University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2000-2013
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General
KW  - Association.
KW  - Crusaders.
KW  - Gun.
KW  - National.
KW  - Rifle.
KW  - come.
KW  - committed.
KW  - confiscation.
KW  - control.
KW  - down.
KW  - each.
KW  - eventually.
KW  - every.
KW  - fascinating.
KW  - four-million.
KW  - inside.
KW  - look.
KW  - member.
KW  - members.
KW  - path.
KW  - socialism.
KW  - step.
KW  - threat.
KW  - towards.
LA  - eng
LA  - In English.
LK  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759509
N2  - 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.
SN  - 9780814759509
T1  - Gun Crusaders :The NRA's Culture War /
TI  - Gun Crusaders :The NRA's Culture War /
UR  - https://univsouthin.idm.oclc.org/login?url=https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780814759509
ER  -