Malcolm Gladwell thinks we’re having the wrong gun control debates

Brian Lehrer: A Daily Politics Podcast | Sep 28

Longstanding discussions about gun control in the US and the 2nd Amendment may be missing some of the important pieces of the conversation.

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Malcolm Gladwell, host of the podcast Revisionist History and author of several books, including his latest, The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic (Little, Brown and Company, 2026), asks why the U.S. suffers from higher rates of gun violence than any other wealthy country.

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