Malcolm Gladwell #4

Malcolm Gladwell returns to discuss murder and gun violence in America, the subject of his book The American Way of Killing. He and Dax dig into what crime procedurals like Law & Order misrepresent about murder, how a surgeon's roughly 3,000 gunshot cases challenge official crime statistics, and what assault weapons bans actually prohibit. Gladwell explains why he sees crime and violence as separate problems and shares a striking comparison between the Los Angeles and Berlin police forces. The conversation also traces how fear pushes people to opposite sides of the gun debate, alongside reflections on his Canadian pacifist upbringing and how American magazines drew him to the country he now calls home.