Madison's Militia

Malcolm Gladwell on What We Get Wrong About Guns

The Next Big Idea, 5 November 2026. The book comes up at 29 min 10 sec in.

A book by Carl Bogus on the Second Amendment's history is called 'really brilliant' and recommended to anyone interested in the subject. His argument, as summarized in the conversation, is that Madison drafted the amendment primarily to protect Virginia's slave patrols — a conclusion Bogus drew from long-neglected transcripts of Virginia's ratification debates.

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