By Kristin A. Goss
More than the other complex commercial democracy, the U.S. is besieged via firearms violence. every year, a few 30,000 humans die by way of gunfire. Over the process its heritage, the country has witnessed the murders of loved public figures; massacres in offices and faculties; and epidemics of gun violence that terrorize neighborhoods and declare tens of millions of lives. Commanding majorities of usa citizens voice help for stricter controls on firearms. but they've got by no means fastened a real nationwide circulation for gun keep an eye on. Why? Disarmed unravels this paradox.
Based on ancient documents, interviews, and unique survey facts, Kristin Goss means that the gun regulate crusade has been stymied via a mixture of things, together with the lack to safe patronage assets, the problems in articulating a message that might resonate with supporters, and strategic judgements made within the identify of powerful coverage. the ability of the so-called gun foyer has performed an enormous function in hobbling the gun-control crusade, yet that isn't the whole tale. rather than pursuing a method of incremental switch at the neighborhood and country degrees, gun keep watch over advocates have sought nationwide regulations. a few forty% of country gun keep watch over legislation predate the Seventies, and the gun foyer has systematically weakened even those longstanding restrictions.
A compelling and engagingly written examine one in all America's so much divisive political matters, Disarmed illuminates the organizational, historic, and policy-related components that constrain mass mobilization, and brings into sharp aid the agonizing dilemmas confronted through advocates of gun keep watch over and different concerns within the United States.
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16 Although gun control supporters lacked a single-issue pressure group, they did not lack resources in the broader sense. Because Kennedy’s appeal was particularly strong among young people and Catholics, gun control supporters might have tapped colleges and churches for movement resources, as the civil rights movement was doing at that very time. 17 36 • Chapter Two The assassination was a dramatic focusing event that had the potential to translate an increasingly favorable political climate into a true political opportunity.
At the intermediate level, they have had individual and organizational supporters with resources to contribute to the cause. And at the structural level, advocates have had numerous political opportunities to mobilize. These three elements—efficacy, resources, and opportunities—have all come together at least five times between 1963 and 1993, and yet the gun control “movement” failed to emerge in a way that conventional movement theory would have predicted. ” Typically, these moments have been prompted by a particularly traumatic shooting or wave of gun violence.
Understanding the gun control participation paradox, or any negativeoutcome question, requires a triangulated research design and the blending of a wide variety of data. The research design, described in greater detail in the next chapter, has three prongs: matched case comparisons, in which gun control is compared with three other issues that are comparable to it along theoretically relevant dimensions; a longitudinal, qualitative analysis of “movement moments” in which the gun control movement had the structural potential to emerge but did not; and a natural (real life) “experiment” in which a gun control entrepreneur attempted to create a national movement.
