Apparently, the heart of opposition to new gun regulations is in the white community. Yet white people face far less daily violence with guns.

Truth titillates the imagination far less than fiction.

Far less envy in America than in France, and far less wit.

Catalysts offer the promise of making chemical transformations far less polluting.

We lose eight children and teenagers to gun violence every day. If a mysterious virus suddenly started killing eight of our children every day, America would mobilize teams of doctors and public health officials. We would move heaven and earth until we found a way to protect our children. But not with gun violence.

It was a far less scientific process back then.