Moral opposition to gun violence faces counter-justification that reframes the issue toward other causes

Evidence

Governor Andrew Cuomo stated his position bluntly, “No one hunts with an assault rifle. No one needs 10 bullets to kill a deer” (Halbfinger & Kaplan, 2013). Governor Dannel Malloy of Connecticut voiced his objection to arming schools as a violation of his state’s values: “That is not who we are in Connecticut, and it is not who we will allow ourselves to become” President Obama appointed Vice President Joe Biden to convene a task force to formulate a set of proposals on how to reduce gun violence. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1258

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1258
• XREF: connects to: Defending lax gun laws requires numbing moral qualms about gun violence — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1262; Attributing blame to mental illness rather than guns is a moral disengagement strategy; Gun advocates reframe reform talk as exploitative opportunism to silence it — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1243 (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Defending lax gun laws requires numbing moral qualms about gun violence — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1262; Attributing blame to mental illness rather than guns is a moral disengagement strategy; Gun advocates reframe reform talk as exploitative opportunism to silence it — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1243 (+1 more)