Three time, school staff warned the school administration that a 6-year-old pupil was carrying a gun. The administration did not take it away from him, and eventually he fired it at a teacher.

Now the superintendent of the school district has been fired.

I've read that someone on the staff searched his bag at some point, but did not find the gun. Perhaps the student had put it in his pocket by then. So perhaps the administration did make some effort.

The term "parental rights" is typically used in US discourse to justify denying children, and adolescents too, thing they have a right to. And even things, such as abortions, that are necessary to avoid a terrible and irreversible change.

The planned increase in electric cars would require so much lithium that mining it is expected to cause great social problems. However, investing to encourage walking and use of other kinds of transport could avoid the problem by reducing the number of cars needed.

I don't know whether this research takes account of the need for lithium for power storage to have power available for times with little wind and little sun. Or for the possibility of using people's cars' batteries for that purpose.

Politicians in many countries adopt a nationalist approach towards present and projected population decline: they exaggerate how difficult it will be to cope with a decrease, and presume that the solution is to persuade young people to have more children. They don't recognize the future danger of a larger (or even unchanged) population, and disregard immigration as a way of reducing future decrease.

It is true that Japanese culture is very unfriendly to immigrants, but the state could do things to reduce that and help immigrants surmount the obstacle.

*The psychedelic ibogaine can treat addiction.* It can also be damaging, even fatal, when used without proper precautions.