Marty's persuasive speech was about gun control and school violence
He made the statement, "Either we take guns out of the hands of everyone in this country, except the police and military, or we can expect massacres in schools all over this country." This kind of argument represents
a. a bandwagon fallacy.
b. an ad hominem fallacy.
c. an appeal to misplaced authority.
d. an either/or fallacy.
d
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