Malcolm Gladwell: Ban Guns!

By Robert Farago

You probably know Malcolm Gladwell [above] from is book, The Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference. Since that 2000 breakout bestseller Mr. Gladwell has written four more hit books, all exploring the nexus of psychology and sociology. So when The New Yorker podcaster and executive editor Dorothy Wickenden quizzed Gladwell (her employee) on the impact of gun control on school shootings, you’d expect him to take a measured view. And you’d be right . . .

What we’re looking at here is a powerful, contagious, adolescent, uh, cultural pathology that has, uh, used the availability of guns to extend its reach. But, you know, there have been school shootings in Germany and Norway and Canada and places where there aren’t a lot of guns, so, I don’t know. And if you look at the cases of these kids, uh, in many of these cases they got access to guns that would still have been available even in the presence of much more, uh, draconian gun control measures.

Fair enough? Maybe so. But not nearly good enough for Ms. Wickenden, whose enthusiasm for civilian disarmament is evident whenever The New Yorker addresses …Read the Rest

Source:: Truth About Guns