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Gun crusaders: the NRA's culture war
"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 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"--Provided by publisher
Ritual Violence in a Two-Car Garage
In: Contexts / American Sociological Association: understanding people in their social worlds, Band 12, Heft 3, S. 26-31
ISSN: 1537-6052
Sociologist Scott Melzer goes inside suburban Fight Clubs to see why men are risking their bodies to take up arms, to bond, and to exorcise childhood experiences of emasculation.
Book Review: King of the Wild Suburb: A Memoir of Fathers, Sons and Guns
In: Men and masculinities, Band 15, Heft 2, S. 202-203
ISSN: 1552-6828