Isolate and discuss the rhetorical devices that appear in the following passage:To study the epidemiology of deaths involving firearms kept in the home, we reviewed all the gunshot deaths that occurred in King County, Washington (population 1,270,000), from 1998 through 2003.... A total of 743 firearm-related deaths occurred during this six-year period, 398 of which (54%) occurred in the residence where the firearm was kept. Only 2 of these 398 deaths (0.5%) involved an intruder shot during attempted entry. Seven persons (1.8%) were killed in self-defense. For every case of self-protection homicide involving a firearm kept in the home, there were 1.3 accidental deaths, 4.6 criminal homicides.... Handguns were used in 70.5% of these deaths.
What will be an ideal response?
We find this almost entirely free of slanters. "Only," in the fourth sentence from the end, downplays the number of intruders shot, but then it is a small number that's being downplayed.
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