Guns Part 6: “Sin is the failure to bother to care | Revisionist History | Malcolm Gladwell

[@Brian-nt1hh]

Thx Malcolm. A finer tuned important perspective of tragedy among us. It is not a newsworthy topic, in fact avoided, by most.

[@leekyoverhere]

Great works Brother Gladwell. Thank you so much for your time, honesty and attention to detail. These were truly excellent

[@datagrl]

Thank you to you and your guest. The children will save us.

[@lajameswilson4945]

This episode represents what I had been expecting, since I heard that you were doing a 6 part series on guns in America. Thanks for doing this Mr. Gladwell. Well done

[@DRFelGood]

“MG” inspiring episode … a solution vs pointing at the problem. Thank you

[@mikehancho74]

This was incredible

[@MsKBWhite]

I listened intently to the series; with all the interesting conversations and revelations. Then you started talking about Abdul’s student that used her kit and the tears came. I asked myself why and the only thing that came was how few people really care - but the ones who do are the only hope we have of ever finding viable solutions to the whole damn mess.

[@D0praise]

Very well done, strong work. Thank you

[@suekemp100]

I am going to start over from Episode 1 - that was so brilliant!

[@roxannetarjan1411]

Malcolm Gladwell, thank you so much to you and your team for this series. I’ve learned so much.

[@pamgallagher9778]

Another brilliant, well researched disclosure of America. Thank you MG. I hope all the deciders listen and implement changes.

[@sveendaag]

Thank you for this series. This is heavy

[@RobertSaxy]

This one really hit hard and close to home. Someone just died a little over a month ago a few doors down from me after getting shot because the police yellow taped, removed the person holding the wounds, stood around and prevented the ambulance from getting through even though they were repeatedly told the shooter fled the scene and was in custody. Written all over their faces was the failure to bother to have cared

[@lorenzopesce5081]

Thank you

[@BenfromFlux]

Thank you for investigating this very complicated issue. Thank you for diving deep enough to realize that there is no simple law to pass that will fix these issues - there will always be guns, and there will always be violent people. My contribution was to design a tourniquet that is 1/3 the size of the standard that is very easy to use and very easy to carry. (ETQ) Doing the same right now for a trauma kit. Now we need to continue to educate and spread awareness. Until we figure out better measures, spreading love and compassion and being prepared to help is to what we should all be doing.

[@tuckerfrd1]

"Always be violent people" - WTF planet do you live on? Everything (and person) on the planet is violent by nature, some just more than others - including me & YOU!

[@FFSammie]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="1309">21:49</a> That is HEAVY to be so matter of fact with fourth graders. Great that our children are learning such a valuable skill but incredibly heartbreaking that this is all being done in the first place. The PTSD is just generational now.

[@OrigamiMarie]

Those are blood feuds. We made the justice system (ostensibly) to make a system for handling these situations before they spiral out into multi-generational conflicts. And the "justice" system has abandoned them (to the extent that it ever truly cared about them) and now . . . blood feuds, supercharged by extremely deadly weapons. Y'know, there used to be more nurses scattered throughout society. When women had fewer career options (which was overall not a better time), one of those options was nursing, and a lot of women had some experience with it. I suppose this was partly because women tended to quit their day jobs when they had kids (also not a better time, but there were some good things about it). This meant more women did some nursing care for a shorter amount of time. And that meant there was probably an adult nearby with nursing experience when stuff like this happened. But the last batch of those adults is old and in need of care themselves now. We desperately need a little bit of trauma care training for everybody now. The good thing though, is that all these years of research on outcome improvement actually percolate down way past the operating room. It's also the first response techniques that have improved, as well as the training that you can provide to bystanders. Even just a short course to everyone, will be potentially better at saving lives than the few years of nurse training & practice that many women got, many decades ago. Also it really says something about policing priorities, that those police officers weren't prepared to do first aid, even while keeping the ambulance away. A trauma kit that a student can keep close, is something that the cops could absolutely have to hand at all times. Or maybe they had the supplies. Maybe they had to be dared to actually do the work by a young woman who wouldn't look away.

[@tuckerfrd1]

Ease to getting gun - legal or otherwise, just adds gas to a fire, and gun and weapons companies are always there to make a profit for either.

[@jimryan1010]

Simply put, your best work, to date. Kim Phuc Phan Thi has a guest essay in the NYT of 6/6/2022 which will add to your discussion of this deplorable problem. Thank you for your effort.

[@evelynramos445]

Need to catch up w this later to listen

[@bettydean4149]

😢 now I feel hopeless

[@douglasodonnell6800]

Sounds exactly like what goes on between nations. In the book”The Once And Future King”, it was described as motivated forgetting. In another book, a character named Jesus talked about it too.

[@Leonitus333]

❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@evelynramos445]

SIN like the tax one pays with disregarded indifference. Paying for such

[@christiangibbs391]

Hey Mal 👋🤓

[@chrisolmsted5678]

Indifference doesn't stand alone as root of the problem. It must be accompanied by lack of hope. Gun control and even law enforcement are the stop gap triage for the symptoms. These efforts don't repair. But, there are ways to address the root if we as a group can see it. An axiom of control theory is that you get what you measure. This works even better with people than with inanimate objects. We need to measure empathy and hope in our education systems and our political systems. Because our first efforts to do this measurement and our first efforts to improve will be deficient we will also need a process for continuing improvement. With these three pillars we will have formed a Quality Assurance program for ensuring domestic tranquility (a primary obligation of any government).

[@kcp786]

Appreciate your thoughtful comment. I do want to add that stop gap measures can be very helpful . I speculate that if the 80s Assault Weapons Ban had stayed in place, we would have quite a few young souls still here with us today and they would have added to this national debate …

[@chrisolmsted5678]

@@kcp786 I agree that stop gap measures are required. Perhaps there's a better term. QA programs for millions will include a lot of stop gap , interim and partial solutions. It's more of a framework for actions (widely used in large businesses) that demonstrates due process. It's not a quick solution.

[@kcp786]

The solutions you and others suggest are more likely possible when one side clearly wins this debate. The NRA has hacked our system national of dialogue as well as the back room politics.. I think We need more storytellers with the skill of Gladwell to ensure your suggested solutions are not more easily sabotaged.. The idea that there is a looming imminent zombie ( or fill in bogey) apocalypse, and all that will matter is the size of one’s arsenal is now deeply embedded.. Not gearing up is equivalent to a sinful lazy neglect of one’s duty to family and country..

[@kcp786]

Thanks for a solid discussion

[@kcp786]

FYI see discussion with @jakejacobs4464

[@steveneff7334]

Sin?!? That is a Bible Issue, secularist (those who dominate politics) have maintained that none of this is sin. So, why now does it matter? Because it has always been a sin problem, they are beginning to see that EVIL is real! Sin is the problem.

[@Ganderbin]

Make sure you stay armed and dangerous

[@jakejacobs4463]

It would seem to me that gun violence isn’t really an issue in rural states…. How many in North Dakota, how many in Montana, how many in Idaho….the problem is the century of corruption in the urban areas… yet no One is demanding anything of these “ Mostly Democratic” urban leaders… we have long had the resources to solve the issues of the inner cities… the United States has had the worlds largest GDP since the 1870s…. Political leaders want to make this about a constitutional right…. Why not address violence by restricting your right to a lawyer, why not restrict the need for a warrant ? Our Constitution provides a remedy to amend the constitution, but in a nation of 300 million guns, there is no support for denying a persons right to own a firearm….

[@kcp786]

The people of United States are and will continue to be concentrated in large cities and their related States. Projecting that Rural=Good and Urban = Bad is not helpful relevant or caring. After listening to this 6 part series and still Claiming that there are no issues with our current approach to the second amendment and the only issues are other constitutional rights such as Miranda and “due process” .. is just plain baffling ..

[@jakejacobs4463]

Somehow you consider it uncaring to point out the failures of urban governments and urban social systems…. When all leftist political leaders do is talk about caring…. You fail to realize that for over 100 years, it’s just been talk….no results to speak of… name a single metric by which large cities have improved in the last generation…. Imagine you owned a building and you employed a janitor, and every day you came into your building to find that the janitor had failed spectacularly at doing the basic job of cleaning your building… at what point do you stop worrying whether the Janitor “ Cares “ about cleaning the building, and hold him responsible for his performance… The same people who want to take away our rights to protect ourselves, are the exact same people who want to remove all responsibility from those who commit crimes….

[@kcp786]

@@jakejacobs4463 I feel it uncaring when one can see such a painful and complex issue sum it as bad people, stupid liberals and corrupt Democrats. If I am fortunate enough to own a building in a major city, I can’t imagine a scenario where the bane of my problem is an over empowered janitor’s intransigence.. That kind of setup question is a red herring. The obvious problem to the rest of the Western world is America’s unhealthy relationship with guns and the second amendment. But I do appreciate that we are engaging in civil dialogue over a tricky topic Thanks for that..

[@jorgemonasterio8361]

Why do you do this to me? Ty

[@ThomasSigurdson]

Mr. Gladwell, Respectfully, I suggest it is much worse. Sin is the conscious choice not bother to care. To consciously choose indifference. This indifference is why, I believe, our sense of community / belonging is dying / has died. Sad to think but globally society may collapse long before climate change gets us. Revisionist History podcast suggestion: Interview Prof. Robert D. Putnam, author of Bowling Alone - America's Declining Social Capital.