Logic involves valid reasoning: something missing in your comment.
OK, lets drill down on it. Where is your evidence for the assertion the public is ignorant of X, Y and Z? You don't have any.
Secondly (apart from AIDS and syphilis), cite some examples where ignorance of public speaking, politics or "proper sexual conduct" leads directly to death.
Judging by the popularity of self-help books and advisors/instructors in those subjects, as well as the comments of experts and professionals in those fields, there's plenty of indicators the public doesn't know crap about those subjects.
As for how lethal this lack is, well it's mighty nice of you to exclude the most blatant and obvious proof of the last, AIDS. But you forgot a few - Hepatitis B (destroys your liver, no cure) and HPV (causes cervical, anal and throat cancer, no sure cure for any of these). And yet people still have recreational sex without condoms.
Politics? Easy - everyone who voted for the
Nazis in 1932. I seem to recall more than a couple people getting killed after that. Specifically,
their own supporters got killed! And this was
before the war.
Lack of public speaking skills being lethal?
http://www.michronicleonline.com/in...-detroit-race-riots-began-on-this-day-in-1943 - one asshole makes an ill-thought public statement and 34 people got killed.
Or, more recently, this -
girl screams 'unintentionally' in a public place, touches off riots that leave 56 dead.
There you go again. Using spurious and ridiculous examples from the United States. It is fruitless for NYC or Chicago to ban guns when neighbouring counties don't. Are there border guards between Illinois and Indiana, searching every vehicle for trafficked weapons? No.
NYC is an island, and they have searched vehicles coming into and out of the island as well as shipments. Hasn't helped.
For that matter, your precious little island with the precious little ban? You *still* can't keep weapons out, as your own fellow Aussie has pointed out over and over to you (but you keep ignoring). So your point does not matter, weapons will get in anyway. Even if there ARE no neighboring countries to supply it and even on a solidly 'secured' island with controlled access. It does not appear that having a neighbor nearby with loose gun laws makes any difference whatsoever.
But let's let that ride for a second. I present to you Hawaii, which is an island having no nearby 'loose control' neighbors to provide arms to smugglers. All access is controlled, as it is in Australia. Border guards, everything in or out is searched. Hawaii requires a permit to purchase a weapon, all firearms of any kind must be registered, all weapons sales or transfers must go through a dealer, have a background check, and a special permit must be issued by the police after mandatory training has occurred.
And yet...
Included in Hawaii?s thick cobweb of gun regulations are a ban on all ?assault pistols,? a mandatory permit (the application for which requires proof of safety training) and the required registration of all firearms with the Honolulu Police.
The laws are meant to keep guns out of dangerous hands and curtail violent crime. Yet they didn?t prevent the 28-year-old Toby Stangel from opening fire on five random individuals earlier this month.
According to HPD officials, Stangel was using an unregistered semiautomatic handgun. And he had already been charged in 2004 with carrying a firearm without a permit.
So, what neighboring state are you going to try to blame the non-native illegal guns in Hawaii on?
And I know nothing of firearm restrictions? Try this. Five years ago a bunch of old deactivated Lee Enfield 303s were up for sale here (I think they had been used as props in a movie). Being interested in Military History and having had 2 grandfathers, a father and 2 uncles involved in the first and second world wars, I thought it might be nice to buy one and display it in the study (along with their medals and some other memorabilia that has been handed down to me). No can do. I could've purchased one, but could not display it (even in private). It would've had to be stored in a gun safe. Same goes for replicas.
We have gun control in this country (so tight it even pisses me off!), you have anarchy .... and are the one with no idea!
Considering
how easily I punched holes in your 'all of Charles Whitman's weapons are illegal in Australia" statement? No. You don't even know your own country's gun laws.
It should also be noted that people get guns inside *prisons* here in the US where literally everything going in or out is searched.
Oh, wait, I already did note that and provided video evidence.
FYI, several US states will not allow you to leave even a deactivated firearm out where a child could reasonably access it, so I'm not sure why you're trying to use that as proof that your laws are more stringent. Many places in the US even ban replica firearms altogether.
Same logic.
