Gun Crusaders: The Nra's Culture War

By Scott Melzer

Book Overview

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.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814764509
• ISBN13: 9780814764503
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.9" x 8.9"