{"id":193267,"date":"2023-10-19T15:05:59","date_gmt":"2023-10-19T20:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=193267"},"modified":"2023-10-23T11:01:23","modified_gmt":"2023-10-23T16:01:23","slug":"its-dumb-malcolm-gladwell-on-an-assault-weapons-ban","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/its-dumb-malcolm-gladwell-on-an-assault-weapons-ban\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It&#8217;s Dumb&#8217; &#8211; Malcolm Gladwell on An &#8216;Assault Weapons&#8217; Ban"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Malcolm Gladwell Talks Gun Control, Assault Weapon Bans, Historical Context + More\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ks0ZIbW2Hks?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Famed author Malcolm Gladwell appeared on the \u201cBreakfast Club\u201d to promote the new season of his podcast, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pushkin.fm\/podcasts\/revisionist-history\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"its-dumb-malcolm-gladwell-on-an-assault-weapons-ban\" title=\"'It's Dumb' - Malcolm Gladwell on An 'Assault Weapons' Ban\">Revisionist History<\/a>.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A six-part series, it tackles \u201ceverything Americans get wrong about guns.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Over the course of the \u201cBreakfast Club\u201d interview it\u2019s clear that Gladwell himself gets many things wrong about guns (e.g., believing the <em>Bruen<\/em> decision was detrimental to the country, considering concealed carriers as threats to public safety, assuming all cops are proficient marksmen, etc). &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But one thing he does get right, is that a ban on so-called \u201cassault weapons\u201d is dumb.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI think assault rifle bans are a dumb idea,\u201d said Gladwell.&nbsp; \u201cThey\u2019re dumb because they\u2019re not actually banning assault rifles.&nbsp; Assault rifle is a kind of platform.&nbsp; And what assault rifle bans do is essentially identify if you accessorize your gun with a certain number of cosmetic things we think that\u2019s bad and we want to ban \u2018em.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-see-also-smith-amp-wesson-unveils-the-response-carbine-it-takes-glock-mags\">SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/smith-wesson-unveils-the-response-carbine-it-takes-glock-mags\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"its-dumb-malcolm-gladwell-on-an-assault-weapons-ban\" title=\"'It's Dumb' - Malcolm Gladwell on An 'Assault Weapons' Ban\">Smith &amp; Wesson Unveils the Response Carbine: It Takes Glock Mags!<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWhy are we identifying a class of weapons because they look ugly?&nbsp; We\u2019re not banning semiautomatic rifles with an assault weapons ban,\u201d he continued. \u201cWe\u2019re banning a tiny subcategory that happen to have a certain number of cosmetic features that we don\u2019t like.  It&#8217;s not solving the problem.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cGuns are dangerous.&nbsp; They\u2019re used in different ways.&nbsp; To spend all of our time and energy trying to remove one tiny subcategory of guns from the equation in the hope that it\u2019s gonna change things is just dumb,\u201d Gladwell said.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"591\" src=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Gladwell-1024x591.jpg\" alt=\"Malcolm Gladwell appears on the breakfast club.\" class=\"wp-image-193269\" title=\"'It's Dumb' - Malcolm Gladwell on An 'Assault Weapons' Ban\" srcset=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Gladwell-1024x591.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Gladwell-400x231.jpg 400w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Gladwell-150x87.jpg 150w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Gladwell-768x443.jpg 768w, https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/Gladwell.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">\u201cI think assault rifle bans are a dumb idea,\u201d said Gladwell.&nbsp; (<em>Photo: The Breakfast Club<\/em>)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Gladwell\u2019s right.&nbsp; Rifles, let alone black rifles, are rarely used in murder. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Rifles as entire category (including the much maligned \u201cassault weapons\u201d) accounted for roughly four percent of gun-related homicides in 2021, according to FBI <a href=\"https:\/\/cde.ucr.cjis.gov\/LATEST\/webapp\/#\/pages\/explorer\/crime\/shr\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"its-dumb-malcolm-gladwell-on-an-assault-weapons-ban\" title=\"'It's Dumb' - Malcolm Gladwell on An 'Assault Weapons' Ban\">data<\/a>.&nbsp; Even a sweepingly confiscatory ban on them would not lead to a measurable reduction in violence. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This fact is obvious to anyone with a shred of common sense.&nbsp; Kudos to Gladwell for admitting what so many anti-gunners won\u2019t.&nbsp; Assault weapons bans are dumb.&nbsp; <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Of course, the next step for Gladwell is not only admitting that they\u2019re dumb &#8212; but they\u2019re unconstitutional as well.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\" style=\"font-size:24px\"><strong><em>*** <a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"its-dumb-malcolm-gladwell-on-an-assault-weapons-ban\" title=\"'It's Dumb' - Malcolm Gladwell on An 'Assault Weapons' Ban\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a> ***<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famed author Malcolm Gladwell appeared on the \u201cBreakfast Club\u201d to promote the new season of his podcast, \u201cRevisionist History.\u201d&nbsp; A six-part series, it tackles \u201ceverything Americans get wrong about guns.\u201d Over the course of the \u201cBreakfast Club\u201d interview it\u2019s clear that Gladwell himself gets many things wrong about guns (e.g., believing the Bruen decision was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":158,"featured_media":193269,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[244,25,240],"tags":[132,607,122],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-193267","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-2nd-amendment-r2kba","8":"category-current-events","9":"category-this-week","10":"tag-buzz","11":"tag-news","12":"tag-r2kba"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>&#039;It&#039;s Dumb&#039; - Malcolm Gladwell on An &#039;Assault Weapons&#039; Ban<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Famed author Malcolm Gladwell shares why an assault weapon ban is a &#039;dumb&#039; idea. 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