Most NRA members favor moderate gun regulations

Evidence

In national surveys, about 70% of current and former NRA members favor many reasonable gun regulations. If this sizable majority truly supports moderate gun polices, it is puzzling why the membership does not moderate the extreme gun policies of their organization from within. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1341

Categorization

• QUESTION: This is a puzzle about preference aggregation — does the extremism come from leadership capture or from enforcement of orthodoxy on moderates?
• corroborated: 3 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1341