MS NOW’s Morning Joe Boosts Author Claiming 2nd Amendment Was for Slave Patrols
3rd October 2026
On Wednesday’s Morning Joe show, co-host Joe Scarborough gave no pushback to liberal author Malcolm Gladwell claiming that the Second Amendment was meant to apply to slave patrols as he complained about the U.S. Supreme Court making gun control more difficult to enact.
The comments came during a discussion of Gladwell’s latest book, The American Way of Killing, which focuses on gun-related violence. After the first part of the discussion pointed out that European countries have substantially more police officers to help focus on crime compared to the U.S., MS NOW contributor Mike Barnicle followed up by comparing guns to a disease.
Gladwell ripped the Supreme Court over prominent rulings that have supported gun rights — even the Heller case which guarantees that Americans have a right to be armed in their homes: “Yeah. I mean, here I have two chapters in the book on the Supreme Court. And the Supreme Court has been a significant impediment here. They have — the last two major gun rulings — in the Bruen case and the Heller case — are abominations.”