A conservative gun owner advocates strict investigations before someone is allowed to own a gun.

He turned in his assault rifle to the thugs because he did not want it to be available to anyone. That was well-intentioned, but does that thug department destroy the weapons that people hand in? Or does it sell them? Some US thug departments sell weapons under those circumstances.

Racism is spreading in Italy, where it wasn't traditional before.

Facebook has a VPN service, which doesn't respect privacy the way most VPN services do.

15% of the world's land area is protected for wildlife, but that's not enough. To preserve most of the species, we should protect something like 50%.

First step: stop increasing the human population.

Iceland proposes to ban circumcision of baby boys, treating it the same as female genital mutilation.

From what I have read, the two practices are not comparable in practice. Female genital mutilation systematically prevents women's sexual pleasure and can lead to life-long medical problems. Circumcision for males is not like that.

But there is an argument for allowing boys to make their own decision about circumcision, when they are old enough to decide.