What Malcolm Gladwell has said about Assault weapons ban
2 quotes · 1 episode · Oct 7, 2026
Malcolm Gladwell, Author of Outliers, whose theory about Chinese numerals Jiang disputes, has been quoted on Assault weapons ban 2 times in 1 episode of Next Question with Katie Couric, most recently on October 7, 2026. Each quote below is verbatim and links to the moment it was said.
In their words
Gladwell argues that assault weapons bans only restrict cosmetic, modular add-ons rather than banning the weapons.
“Assault rifle bands simply limit the number of those cosmetic add-ons that you're allowed to buy and use. That's all they do”
Next Question with Katie Couric: Malcolm Gladwell on America’s Gun Crisis (Oct 7, 2026) · Listen from 49:16
Gladwell says handguns, not assault rifles, account for most mass-shooting fatalities.
“Most fatalities from mass shootings, first of all, are from handguns, not from assault rifles”
Next Question with Katie Couric: Malcolm Gladwell on America’s Gun Crisis (Oct 7, 2026) · Listen from 49:53
Episodes
Malcolm Gladwell on America’s Gun CrisisNext Question with Katie Couric · Oct 7, 2026 · 1 h 4 min
Katie Couric talks with Malcolm Gladwell about his book The American Way of Killing, covering under-policing, prisons, the Second Amendment, assault weapons bans and gun suicide.
Others on Assault weapons ban
- Katie Couric · 1 quote
Malcolm Gladwell on other topics
- Police staffing in the United States · 4 quotes
- Gun violence in the United States · 3 quotes
- Firearm suicide · 2 quotes
- Incarceration in the United States · 2 quotes
- Second Amendment to the United States Constitution · 2 quotes
- New York State Rifle & Pistol Association v. Bruen · 1 quote
- Stop-and-frisk in New York City · 1 quote
- Baltimore violence reduction strategy · 1 quote