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  • 10 - Weaponized Group Identities and the Health of Democracy

  • from Part III - Social Polarization and Partisanship
  • Edited by Robert C. Lieberman, Suzanne Mettler, Cornell University, New York, Kenneth M. Roberts, Cornell University, New York
  • Book:
    Democratic Resilience
    Published online:
    20 November 2021
    Print publication:
    25 November 2021, pp 246-264

  • Summary

    The National Rifle Association (NRA) is good at using democracy to advance its agenda. Over the course of many decades, the United States’ foremost advocate of gun rights has built substantial political power by cultivating a politically unified and engaged base of grassroots supporters. The political intensity of US gun owners – and the NRA’s ability to mobilize them into action – has enabled the organization to consistently defeat proposed gun regulations and is a key reason that it has become a central pillar of the contemporary Republican Party.