Gun Rights Activists and the Us Culture War: Embodied Fantasies of the Ethical Warrior in Contemporary Gun Culture

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: First Encounters
1. An Anthropological Approach to US Gun Culture
	The Gun Rights Movement
	Golden State Gun Culture
	Writing Gun Culture
	How to Use this Book
2. The Myth of the Ethical Warrior
	Living American Warriors
	Good Guys with Guns
	New War, New Warriors
	Bad Guys with Guns
3. Gun Rights, Vulnerability Politics, and Gun Violence
	A Local Gun Rights Movement
	Concealed Carry Weapons Permits
	We Need to Talk About Gun Violence
	The Opposition
4. “Gun Rights Are Civil Rights”
	“Gun Rights Are Women’s Rights”
	The Pink Pistols
	Identity and Political Conflict
	Vulnerability and the Right to Kill
5. Fear, Loathing, and Defensive Shooting in Las Vegas
	Becoming Safe
	Las Vegas
	The Ethics of Self-Defense
	Insight Firearms Training Institute
	Criminals and Psychopaths
	The Drive Home
6. Do Guns or People Kill People?
	Shooting Alone
	The Weapons Instrumentality Hypothesis
	Shooting Socials
	The Multiple Self
	So What?
7. “It’s Just Fun”
	Establishing a “Play Frame”
	Strategizing and Embodied Play
	Masculinity, Competition, and Consensus
	Men and their Guns
	Playing with Guns
8. Conclusion: Implications for Policy and Research
	Technologies of Fear
	Contribution to Anthropology
	Solutions to Gun Violence
	Final Reflections
Index