gun culture

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/10/2023
  

  My Course Examines Why God and Guns Go Together in America

  by Joseph P. Slaughter

  Although there are many "peace church" traditions in American Christianity, there are many other historical strains that view violence as an appropriate and necessary means of securing the divinely sanctioned destiny of the nation. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  12/17/2021
  

  America as a Tactical Gun Culture

  by Chad Kautzer

  "Vigilantism is fueled by an individualist notion of sovereignty more dangerous than any military-grade weaponry. It rejects the freedom of others as equal to one’s own and views any attempt to support such equality as tyranny."

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  11/16/2021
  

  How Much is the NRA to Blame for the Gun Culture?

  Two new books help to shed light on how the NRA, partisan politicians, and the gun industry "took a political base of hunters and nurtured a new, expanded audience of gun guys," and how they made Americans live in their world. 

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• SOURCE: The Globe and Mail
  3-2-18
  

  Boycotts won't weaken the NRA's bottom line – but that's not the point

  by Lawrence Glickman

  The ethical point boycotters have tried to raise from that time to our own is that, in an interconnected national and international market economy, there are no innocent bystanders.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Beast
  2-25-18
  

  Even the Wild West Embraced Gun Control

  by Gil Troy

  The Wild West wasn't so wild that it—and the Stormy South—couldn’t include gun control.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  2-28-18
  

  Gun-rights advocates are right that violent films encourage school shootings. They’re wrong about how.

  by Matthew Christopher Hulbert

  The problem isn't the violence — it's the celebration of gun culture.

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• 12-16-13
  

  American Boys And Their Guns

  by Joan Brumberg

  A pictorial history of America's gun culture.

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• SOURCE: WaPo
  1-17-13
  

  NRA and the GOP: Together in history

  President Obama’s Wednesday pitch for sweeping new gun control laws included a nod to a conservative icon: Ronald Reagan.

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• The Real Origin of America's Gun Culture

  by Carole Emberton

  Replica of a Colt 1851 Navy revolver. Credit: Wiki Commons."I'm here to tell you, 1776 will commence again if you try to take our firearms!,” radio host Alex Jones warned British television journalist Piers Morgan on Monday. Leading the charge to have Morgan deported for voicing his opposition to America’s lax gun control laws, which many believe led to the shooting deaths of twenty children and six adults last month at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut, Jones attempted to cast Morgan as a modern-day Tory ready to reclaim the United States as Great Britain’s colonial possession. Although Morgan’s Britishness proved an effective prop to Jones’s revolutionary rhetoric, the current debate over gun control owes more to the Civil War Era than the American Revolution.