Publishing moderation on gun rights gets journalists fired

Evidence

Another strategy, designed to stifle any talk of gun reforms, condemns any talk about the role of guns in the massacre as political opportunism that exploits people’s grief in a time of mourning. Wayne LaPierre set the tone: “While some have tried to exploit tragedy for political gain, we have remained respectfully silent” (Goldstein, 2012). In an even more outlandish charge of opportunism against President Clinton after the Columbine shooting, LaPierre contended that Clinton was “willing to accept a certain level of killing to further his political agenda and his vice president, too” (Pear, 2000). — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1243 (#complicates, via linked claim)

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Moderate views within gun advocacy groups are punished into conformity — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1342; Gun advocates reframe reform talk as exploitative opportunism to silence it — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1243

Broader Connections

• Gun advocates reframe reform talk as exploitative opportunism to silence it #complicates (0.72) — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1243