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Gun Crusaders: The Nra's Culture War

Gun Crusaders: The Nra's Culture War

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General Political ScienceSocial Movements

ISBN10: 0814764509
ISBN13: 9780814764503
Publisher: New York Univ Pr
Published: Sep 17 2012
Pages: 336
Weight: 1.00
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
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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