Gun crusaders : the NRA's culture war / Scott Melzer.
Melzer, Scott.
2009
HV7436 .M45 2009 (Mapit)
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Title Gun crusaders : the NRA's culture war / Scott Melzer.
Author Melzer, Scott.
ISBN 9780814795507 (alk. paper)
0814795501 (alk. paper)
Imprint New York : New York University Press, c2009.
Language English
Description xii, 323 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Call Number HV7436 .M45 2009
Dewey Decimal Classification 323.4/3
Summary 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.
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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