Gravity Denied

Growing up in Los Angeles, we were annually subjected to a series of PSAs cautioning against celebratory gunfire on New Year's Eve. In fact, we distinctly remember a police officer visiting our elementary school one year before the holiday break, in order to caution us against going outside in the initial minutes after they calendar's big turn.

The anti-gunfire campaign continues in L.A., though not without yielding some positive results—it's been ten years since the city's last fatality...