Ethics committees declined to review NRA board members’ conflict of interest

Evidence

The Brady Campaign to Prevent Gun Violence submitted a request to the House and Senate ethics committees to examine the conflict of interest of Craig, Cubin, and Young’s co-sponsoring the liability exemption bill while serving on the NRA board. Their request fell on deaf ears. When the bill was reintroduced in the Senate, it passed handily, granting gun makers and dealers sweeping liability exemption for misuse of firearms. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1112

Categorization

Category: Factual Claims

• SEED: Angle: the ethics committee as a designed fail-safe that is structurally incentivized to fail — the body empowered to catch conflicts of interest declined to act on direct evidence, which is itself the mechanism of moral disengagement at institutional scale.

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