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Although many associate gun-centric ideology with individualist and libertarian traditions in American political culture, Race, Rights, and Rifles shows that it rests on an equally old but different foundation. Instead, Alexandra Filindra shows that American gun culture can be traced back to the American Revolution when republican notions of civic duty were fused with a belief in white male supremacy and a commitment to maintaining racial and gender hierarchies.  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Reconstructing the political history of guns in the US and dissecting its ongoing impact on the present-day, \u003ci\u003eRace, Rights and Rifles\u003c\/i\u003e shows how ascriptive republicanism transforms the right to self-defense—a basic human impulse for survival—into a rallying point for political polarization and a justification for an investment in illiberal democracy.” -- Jennifer Dawn Carlson | author of \"Merchants of the Right: Gun Sellers and the Crisis of American Democracy\"\u003cbr\u003e“Why are gun killings in the United States an everyday occurrence? \u003ci\u003eRace, Rights, and Rifles\u003c\/i\u003e blends intellectual and political history, an eye-opening account of the National Rifle Association (NRA), and contemporary public opinion data to provide compelling answers. Alexandra Filindra shows that the American Revolution fused white male gun ownership with ideals of republican civic virtue in ways that the NRA has long championed. 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