Why Is America Different Than Every Other Country When It Comes to Guns?
08 okt 2026 · 00:47:19
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The American Way of Killing by Malcolm Gladwell
Malcolm Gladwell - one of America’s foremost thought leaders - examines our country’s obsession with guns and the devastating toll gun violence has taken on our communities. In his new book, The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic, Malcolm challenges some of our most deeply held beliefs about American gun violence: what we’re missing about the root cause of most violence, how modern medicine is obscuring the reality of the problem, why the answer might be more police—not less—and how we’ve lost sight of the historical context surrounding the Second Amendment. Oprah and Malcolm speak with a Chicago based E.R. doctor who lost 15 close friends and family members to gun violence. He teaches students as young as fourth grade how to treat a gunshot wound. This episode also offers some common sense solutions to a seemingly intractable problem.
00:00:00 - Welcome Malcolm Gladwell, author of “The American Way of Killing”
00:04:20 - European vs. American police
00:08:50 - Stats around more police
00:09:50 - Malcolm’s experience with guns
00:13:30 - Welcome Dr. Pratt
00:16:33 - Talking to kids about gun violence
00:19:15 - Changing gun violence
00:21:00 - Treating gun shot wounds
00:25:13 - The 2nd amendment
00:29:00 - Crime vs. violence
00:33:45 - Instrumental vs. expressive violence
00:40:00 - Are we learning from our mistakes?
00:43:00 - The gun problem is not unsolvable
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