Defending lax gun laws requires numbing moral qualms about gun violence

Evidence

In their efforts to ward off any legislative initiatives to strengthen gun laws, gun advocates faced the task of defending lax regulations that provide the means for mass gun violence. This required reducing moral qualms about the types of guns being manufactured and how they are being sold and used. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1262

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Relevant to ‘On Sacrifice’ theme of moral justification regimes — here exculpatory framing of gun rights parallels sacrificial logic as moral rationalization.