Gun advocates reframed policy defense as protecting law-abiding citizensā constitutional rights.
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. ā¦ The constitutional protection of gun rights was a major justification. Some of the more ardent progun activists construed the Supreme Court ruling as granting law-abiding citizens the absolute right as citizens to buy whatever type of gun they want and to carry it wherever they go. ā Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1262
Categorization
- XREF: Their stated reading purpose: mechanism explaining rationalization of harmful policy ā this shows the āadvantageous comparisonā / euphemistic-labeling mechanism in a concrete domestic case, paralleling vault claims about social conservatism signaling and authoritarianism in gun ownership. ā connects to: American contention runs on claim-making governed by constitutional rights and state protection. ā Charles Tilly, Regimes and Repertoires, 379
- corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim ā Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harmā¦, 1262