Gun advocates dismiss public safety concerns as fabricated media non-issues.

Evidence

In a speech he delivered at the National Press Club, Charlton Heston trivialized public concern over armor-piercing bullets and easy access to small concealable pistols that are the preferred weapon in criminal activities. He characterized regulatory initiatives regarding these menacing products thus: … “I want to save the Second Amendment from all these nitpicking little wars of attrition, fights over alleged ‘Saturday night specials,’ plastic guns, cop-killer bullets and so many other made-for-prime-time non-issues invented by some press agent over at gun-control headquarters that you guys buy time and again” (Seelye, 1997). Efforts to regulate guns were, in his view, The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives is the main federal agency responsible for overseeing the enforcement of gun regulations. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1128

Categorization

• XREF: Echoes the euphemistic labeling and trivialization techniques cataloged in Bandura’s moral disengagement framework.