Countries like Britain, Scotland, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, all chagrined by mass shootings at one time or another, have all effectively enacted gun safety laws.

Nature on Earth is in a man-made death spiral, but imagine how much faster we would be killing life as we know it if everyone on this fragile orb followed the lead of America’s most “successful.”

A wide-ranging week in reader comment.

From the continuing bicycle craze of 1897 to the secret 1997 settlement of Jerry Della Femina’s civil rights lawsuits against East Hampton Village, it happened here.