Collective moral disengagement over mass shootings happens while victims are still being buried

Evidence

What came as a surprise was the swift, collective moral disengagement by progun proponents while the young victims were still being buried. Wayne LaPierre announced that the NRA would fight any legislative efforts to tighten gun laws (Stolberg & Kantor, 2013). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1249

Categorization

• XREF: The temporal urgency Bandura notes parallels the grievance-rationalization literature the vault holds on how harm-supporting discourse accelerates rather than waits for proper reflection. — connects to: Posthumous martyr images of ordinary victims can unite a divided public — Vincent Bevins, If We Burn: The Mass Protest Decade and…, 215
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1249