Malcolm Gladwell
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51 recordings
16 series
first heard Nov 2024
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Malcolm Gladwell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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However, he handled sentiment and authority.
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The planter was an anxious man.
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The only major country in the world other than the United States to give its citizens the constitutional right to bear arms is Mexico.
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Article ten of the Mexican Constitution reads The inhabitants of the United Mexican states have the right to keep arms at home for their protection and legitimate defense.
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with the exception of those prohibited by the federal law and those reserved for the exclusive use of the Army, Navy, Air Force, and National Guard.
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Federal law will state the cases, conditions, requirements, and places where inhabitants can be authorized to carry weapons.
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Those two sentences that make up Article ten were written in nineteen seventeen, firmly in the modern era.
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You may or may not agree with its intent, but there is no uncertainty about what it means.
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It says plainly that
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that the Mexican government cannot take guns away from its citizens.
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At the same time though, it gives Mexico's lawmakers a very clear set of instructions about how they can limit that right.
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The government can define the quote cases, conditions, requirements, and places, end quote, where guns are and are not allowed.
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Mexico has had its own very serious problems with lethal violence in recent years, but none of Mexico's problems with controlling guns are caused by any ambiguities in the country's constitution.
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Article ten.
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Is crystal clear?
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By contrast, the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution, America's equivalent to Article ten, is a puzzle.
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A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed.
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That sentence was written in the late eighteenth century, an era closer to Shakespeare's time than our own, and no one would write a sentence like that today.
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It starts with what some linguists call an initial being clause, which is a thought that precedes the main body of the sentence.
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So, quote, a well-regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, comma.
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