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" Gun crusaders : "
Scott Melzer
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BL
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700993
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b523182
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Melzer, Scott
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Gun crusaders : : the NRA's culture war /\ Scott Melzer
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: New York University Press,, c2009
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xii, 323 p. :: ill. ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0814795501
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: 9780814795507
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 271-304) and index
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| Contents
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Frontier masculinity, America's "gun culture," and the NRA -- Why a gun movement? -- Framing threats to gun rights -- Under attack -- Fighting the culture wars -- The politics of commitment -- Right and far-right moral politics -- The ties that bind
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| Abstract
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"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 an 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."--BOOK JACKET
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National Rifle Association of America
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Firearms ownership-- United States
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Gun control-- United States
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