Malcolm Gladwell on “The American Way of Killing”
Malcolm Gladwell's new book, The American Way of Killing, argues that the U.S. conversation on gun violence is fundamentally dishonest, focusing on misleading metrics like homicide rates and symbolic policies like assault weapon bans while ignoring the root causes: expressive violence,
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