Gun lobby preemptive state laws shift power to easily-influenced legislators.

Evidence

Revoking local jurisdiction by preemptive legislation shifts local control to state legislators, who are more easily influenced by lobbyists. Safety concerns have roused the public in the otherwise gun-friendly state of Tennessee to confront their politicians on whether they will side with the gun lobby or with their constituents. As one mother put it at a local hearing, “Are you going to hear the voices of the unarmed?” — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1186

Categorization

• XREF: Illustrates the structural level at which moral disengagement operates—shifting regulation away from local democratic voice, parallel to authoritarianism claims about how power concentrates away from constituents.
• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1186