Gun industry advocates equate firearm advances with benign technological evolution

Evidence

The analogy between old-style firearms and modern firearms isn’t too different from the analogy from hand-written manuscripts and the old printing presses that we had to the internet today. The technology has changed, but the need for the protection has not… . It’s true for the First Amendment as well as the Second Amendment. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1122

Categorization

• XREF: This is a vivid example of symptom-victim rhetoric and euphemistic relabeling that Bandura catalogs throughout — specifically the recasting of military-style weapons as speech-protection technology.
• SEED: An essay contrasting the firearm-as-speech analogy (framing a lethality question as a liberty question) with analogous moves in AI or pharmaceutical regulation, where technological change is used to retag the moral stakes.