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000344490 1001_ $$aMelzer, Scott.
000344490 24510 $$aGun crusaders :$$bthe NRA's culture war /$$cScott Melzer.
000344490 260__ $$aNew York :$$bNew York University Press,$$cc2009.
000344490 300__ $$axii, 323 p. :$$bill. ;$$c24 cm.
000344490 504__ $$aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
000344490 5050_ $$aAcknowledgments -- 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.
000344490 520__ $$aFrom the Publisher: Nothing conjures up images of the American frontier and a pick-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps view of freedom and independence quite like guns.  Gun Crusaders is a fascinating inside look at how the four-million member National Rifle Association and its committed members come to see each and every gun control threat as a step down the path towards gun confiscation, and eventually socialism.  Enlivened by a rich analysis of NRA materials, meetings, leader speeches, and unique in-depth interviews with NRA members, Gun Crusaders focuses on how the NRA constructs and perceives threats to gun rights as one more attack in a broad liberal cultural war.  Scott Melzer shows that the NRA promotes a nostalgic vision of frontier masculinity, whereby gun rights defenders are seen as patriots and freedom fighters, defending not the freedom of religion, but the religion of individual rights and freedoms.
000344490 61020 $$aNational Rifle Association of America.
000344490 650_0 $$aGun control$$zUnited States.
000344490 650_0 $$aFirearms ownership$$zUnited States.
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