Severe tragedies can resist the usual moral justifications for lax regulation

Evidence

The NRA’s press conference and La Pierre’s appearances on national talk shows did not go well. The tragedy was too horrific to be neutralized by oft-used moral justifications for lax gun regulations. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1253

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 1253
• XREF: connects to: Formalized risk regulation would still fail to register regret over tragic choices — Douglas A. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental…, 72; Moral principles and elite virtue can be marshaled to justify disastrous wars — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 200; Private moral regulation becomes state function when crises demand it (+1 more)
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Formalized risk regulation would still fail to register regret over tragic choices — Douglas A. Kysar, Regulating from Nowhere: Environmental…, 72; Moral principles and elite virtue can be marshaled to justify disastrous wars — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm…, 200; Private moral regulation becomes state function when crises demand it (+1 more)