A school shooting catastrophe immediately produced the nation’s strictest gun laws

Evidence

New York State promptly passed the strictest gun regulations in the nation. Governor Andrew Cuomo stated his position bluntly, “No one hunts with an assault rifle. No one needs 10 bullets to kill a deer” (Halbfinger & Kaplan, 2013). Governor Dannel Malloy of Connecticut voiced his objection to arming schools as a violation of his state’s values: “That is not who we are in Connecticut, and it is not who we will allow ourselves to become” President Obama appointed Vice President Joe Biden to convene a task force to formulate a set of proposals on how to reduce gun violence. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1258

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: The identity-values framing in Malloy’s objection (‘that is not who we are in Connecticut’) parallels the moral identity mechanisms central to the ‘Complaints About Immodesty’ piece, where dress norms function as identity markers.