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Explain It to Me

The Most Dangerous Branch: A well-regulated militia

Explain It to Me

Vox Media Podcast Network

Politics, Society & Culture, Education, News

4.48K Ratings

🗓️ 27 May 2022

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This episode originally published in October 2021 as the second installment of our “Most Dangerous Branch” miniseries about the Supreme Court. Vox senior correspondent Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) talks with law professor Joseph Blocher and historian Carol Anderson about the Second Amendment, the triumph of the NRA's vision for that amendment, and an upcoming Supreme Court case that endangers more than a century of American gun control laws. References: The Positive Second Amendment Rights, Regulation, and the Future of Heller, Joseph Blocher  The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America, Carol Anderson Credits: Sofi LaLonde, producer & engineer Libby Nelson, editorial advisor Amber Hall, deputy editorial director of talk podcasts Sign up for The Weeds newsletter each Friday: vox.com/weedsletter  Want to support The Weeds? Please consider making a donation to Vox: bit.ly/givepodcasts Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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So far, most of them are taking the money.

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But a few are fighting.

0:51.6

One of them is Zip Davis.

0:54.1

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And on this week's episode, I'm talking to Ziff Davis, CEO of Vek Shah, who tells me he's kind of

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1:12.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of The Weeds. I'm your host, Dylan Matthews.

1:17.5

On Tuesday, an 18-year-old gunman shot and killed 19 children and two adults at an elementary

1:22.0

school in Uvaldi, Texas. Less than two weeks after 10 people were killed in a racially motivated

1:26.9

attack at a grocery store in Buffalo.

1:29.3

And while America has a very visible and unique problem with assault weapons and mass shootings,

1:34.3

events like Tuesday are the shooting in Buffalo don't paint the full picture of gun violence in America.

1:39.3

In 2020, over 45,000 people died from gun-related injuries.

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