Gun safety training is rhetorically framed as a violation of civil rights.

Evidence

Sandra Froman (2007) argued, by minimization through advantageous comparison, against states’ requiring gun purchasers to receive instructions on how to operate guns safely, except in some shortened form that can be easily turned into a token gesture: “And why should we have training at all? We don’t have a literacy test for people to vote. That’s a right that you have, just like the Second Amendment is a right.” She compared the requirement for instruction in gun safety with Jim Crow–era literacy tests intended to disqualify mainly African American voters. This is a strange comparison, indeed, of framing the requirement of safety instruction as violating a civil right. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1126

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the pattern of advantageous comparison as a moral disengagement mechanism seen throughout this book’s framework.