Second Amendment to the United States Constitution
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Second Amendment to the United States Constitution has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Next Question with Katie Couric. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Malcolm GladwellAuthor of Outliers, whose theory about Chinese numerals Jiang disputes
Gladwell contends the Second Amendment was written to secure Southern slaveholders' militias in exchange for ratification of the Constitution.
“That amendment was written because slave owners in the South, in Virginia and South Carolina, were refusing to ratify the Constitution of the United States”
Next Question with Katie Couric: Malcolm Gladwell on America’s Gun Crisis (Oct 7, 2026) · Listen from 17:37
Gladwell argues that analysis of 18th-century grammar shows the Supreme Court's interpretation of the Second Amendment is not what its authors meant.
“And if you know the grammar of the 18th century, it is crystal clear what they meant. And what they meant is not the way the court is interpreted”
Next Question with Katie Couric: Malcolm Gladwell on America’s Gun Crisis (Oct 7, 2026) · Listen from 15:10
Podcasts
- Next Question with Katie Couric · 1 episode
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.