Australia's plain paper cigarette pack law survived an attack through a "trade treaty".

This is good news, but many good laws and policies have been destroyed by these business-supremacy treaties, most recently US country-of-origin meat labelling.

We should get rid of all such treaties.

The San Bernardino shooters used large magazines that are illegal to sell in California.

It's not hard to buy them in some other state, perhaps Arizona or Nevada, and bring them illegally to California. However, if they were illegal in the whole US, it would really be hard to get them.

The guns were also modified illegally so they could fire faster.

Those intending to commit murder will not be deterred by fear of punishment for doing these modifications, but the law could require designs that make this more difficult to do.

Recommendation: don't binge on news about a tragedy.

India's nuclear industry dumps waste into the Subarnarekha river, making its water unsafe to drink.

Kenyan [thugs] Rescue Hundreds of Girls Due to Undergo FGM.

When I call them "thugs", that doesn't mean everything the thugs do is bad. It means that occasionally one of them kills someone unjustly and the rest then try to protect that one.