Malcolm Gladwell on America's gun violence problem
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Malcolm Gladwell on America's gun violence problem

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 21, 202624 min
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Gun violence remains one of America's deadliest and most polarizing issues. There have already been more than 350 mass shootings in the United States in 2026. Malcolm Gladwell is the author of international best-selling books like The Tipping Point, Outliers, and Revenge of the Tipping Point. We talk to Malcolm Gladwell about his new book, The American Way of Killing: The Invention of an Epidemic, where he tries to understand the gun violence epidemic in the United States and examines what Americans on both sides of the gun control debate are getting wrong.

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This is a CBC Podcast. Hello, I'm Matt Galloway and this is the Current Podcast. Gun violence remains one of America's deadliest and most polarizing issues. Last year, on average, more than 110 people were shot every day across that country.

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