Invoking assassinated reformers to defend the gun industry is morally shameless

Evidence

To use President Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.—whose reform efforts were silenced when they were shot to death—to vindicate the problematic policies and practices of the gun industry is not only the height of irony. It is shameless. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1087 (#expands, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Gun lobby equates guns with revered figures to justify lethal products; Advertisers borrow revered reformers’ histories to morally elevate firearms; Invoking assassinated reformers to back gun policies is a shameless rhetorical irony. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1087

Broader Connections

• Invoking assassinated reformers to back gun policies is a shameless rhetorical irony. #expands (0.95) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1087