Gun Crusaders: The NRA’s Culture WarGun 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. |
Contents
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Why a Gun Movement? | 44 |
Framing Threats to Gun Rights | 73 |
Under Attack | 110 |
Fighting the Culture Wars | 131 |
The Politics of Commitment | 171 |
Right and FarRight Moral Politics | 198 |
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