Diane Rehm Show: America’s Tolerance for Gun Violence

Hot on the heels of Friday’s appearance (if one can actually “appear” on radio) on CBC’s Q, I was on NPR’s Diane Rehm Show today for a panel discussion of “America’s tolerance for gun violence.”

The panel included psychiatry professor Dr. Liza Gold, British criminologist Peter Squires, and Wall Street Journal reporter Devlin Barrett. It’s worth a listen. Dr. Gold in particular makes the point I made on Q Friday, that mental illness is a red herring, but of course makes it from a position of much greater authority.