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03679aam a2200421 i 4500 001 C27F235E807011EABE26D64B97128E48 003 SILO 005 20200417010021 008 190618t20202020miua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2019023530 020 $a 0472131664 020 $a 9780472131662 035 $a (OCoLC)1107369270 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d OCLCO $d OCLCF $d UKMGB $d YDX $d SILO 042 $a pcc 043 $a n-us--- 050 00 $a HV7436 $b .M47 2020 100 1 $a Merry, Melissa K., $e author. 245 10 $a Warped narratives : $b distortion in the framing of gun policy / $c Melissa K. Merry. 264 1 $a Ann Arbor : $b University of Michigan Press, $c 2020. 300 $a x, 225 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 23 cm 504 $a Includes bibliographical references and index. 505 0 $a Distortion in the Gun Policy Debate -- Framing in Gun Policy -- Interest Groups in Gun Policy -- Narrative Strategies -- Victims -- Perpetrators -- Settings -- Policy and Political Implications -- Beyond Gun Policy: Practical and Theoretical Implications. 520 $a "The politics of gun policy in the United States are dramatic. Against the backdrop of daily gun violence-which claims more than 33,000 lives per year-gun control groups push for stronger regulations, while gun rights groups resist infringements upon their Second Amendment rights. To illuminate the dynamics of this polarized debate, Warped Narratives examines how and why interest groups frame the gun violence problem in particular ways and explores the implication of groups' framing choices for policymaking and politics. Melissa K. Merry argues the gun policy area is warped, and that both gun control and gun rights organizations contribute to the distortion of the issue by focusing on atypical characters and settings in their policy narratives. Gun control groups emphasize white victims, child victims, and mass shootings in suburban locales, while gun rights groups focus on self-defense shootings, highlighting threats to "law-abiding" gun owners. In reality, most gun deaths are the result of suicide, and homicides occur disproportionately in urban areas, mainly affecting racial minorities. While warping makes political sense in the short term, it may lead to negative, long-term consequences, including constraints on groups' ability to build broad-based coalitions and reduced prospects for compromise. To demonstrate warping, Merry analyzes nearly 67,000 communications by 15 national gun policy groups between 2000 and 2017 collected from blogs, emails, Facebook posts, and press releases. This book is the first to systematically assess the role of race in gun policy groups' framing and offers the most comprehensive examination to date of interest groups' framing of this issue"-- $c Provided by publisher. 650 0 $a Gun control $z United States $x Public opinion. 650 0 $a Public opinion $z United States. 650 0 $a Firearms $x Law and legislation $z United States. 650 0 $a Political culture $z United States. 650 7 $a Firearms $x Law and legislation. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00925588 650 7 $a Gun control $x Public opinion. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00949386 650 7 $a Political culture. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01069263 650 7 $a Public opinion. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01082785 651 7 $a United States. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01204155 776 08 $i Online version: $a Merry, Melissa Kate, $t Warped narratives $d Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2020. $z 9780472126248 $w (DLC) 2019023531 941 $a 2 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20210721014927.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200806023336.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=C27F235E807011EABE26D64B97128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search