
that's not even what cognitive dissonance is. cognitive dissonance is the discomfort one experiences when their actions don't align with their beliefs. that's important because cognitive dissonance actually promotes changes in thinking. the word you're looking for is hypocrisy. this is neither hypocrisy nor cognitive dissonance
I mean, look, Charlie already wrote himself off as acceptable losses before he even died. He’s the one who said we had to accept gun deaths as the price we pay for our 2nd Amendment rights. He’s just one of the few NRA types to ever put his money where his mouth was on that issue.