Fashion marketing normalizes concealed weapons as everyday accessories

Evidence

Spin-off businesses treat lethal weapons as innocuous accessories. For example, the fashion industry is marketing stylish clothing with special pockets for concealing a weapon. This enables armed women to look stylish while carrying a gun. The industry also markets fashionable handbags with a special compartment for a weapon. Catchy names for clothing include Elite Discreet and Gun Tote’n Mamas for handbags. Stylish male gun accessories also are being marketed. Turning a lethal device into normative gear is a significant change in cultural values and morality. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1224

Categorization

• SEED: The normalization of weapons through consumer fashion — hiding lethality in stylishness — is a vivid lens on moral disengagement that could anchor an essay on how markets absorb moral taboos.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1224