Gun advocates reframe regulation challenges as elite attacks on patriotic freedom

Evidence

Challenges to the morality and civic responsibility of the gun industry’s troubling practices are met with infuriated reactions by progun advocates. They see themselves as patriotic defenders of freedom, unjustly attacked by an arrogant, elitist minority bent on banning guns from society. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1157

Challenges to the morality and civic responsibility of the gun industry’s troubling practices are met with infuriated reactions by progun advocates. … They see themselves as patriotic defenders of freedom, unjustly attacked by an arrogant, elitist minority bent on banning guns from society. During his presidency of the NRA, Charlton Heston launched the most blistering counterattack. He directed his heaviest fire at the press, especially their coverage of publicly alarming shootings (Heston, 1999). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1158

Categorization

• XREF: Moral disengagement dynamics parallel the elite-vs-commoner framing in the reader’s earlier notes on ideology and grievance politics.
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1157; Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1158