Advocates rhetorically minimize firearms lethality escalation through false analogy

Evidence

Sandra Froman (2007) camouflaged this issue with her oft-used misleading comparative metaphors and minimization of the escalation of lethality: … The analogy between old-style firearms and modern firearms isn’t too different from the analogy from hand-written manuscripts and the old printing presses that we had to the internet today. The technology has changed, but the need for the protection has not… . It’s true for the First Amendment as well as the Second Amendment. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1122

Categorization

• DEFINE: Exemplifies Bandura’s mechanism of euphemistic labeling and advantageous comparison applied to weaponry: recasting a lethal escalation as mere technological advance parallel to the printing press.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1122