Gun Crusaders: The NRA's Culture War
by Scott Melzer
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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 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 show more 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. show lessTags
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Scott Melzer is a professor of sociology and chair of the women's gender, and sexuality studies program at Albion College in Michigan. He is the author of Gun Crusaders: The NRA's Culture War.
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- Nonfiction, Politics and Government, General Nonfiction, Sociology, Hunting and Fishing
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- 323.4 — Social sciences Political science Civil and political rights The state and the individual
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- HV7436 .M45 — Social sciences Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminology Social pathology. Social and public welfare. Criminal justice administration Gun control
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