A speaker says, "People who favor gun control want to turn our society over to the criminals. Therefore, we must ignore these gun-control advocates." This speaker is guilty of using which kind of fallacy in reasoning?

A. either-or reasoning
B. false cause
C. induction
D. straw man


Answer: D

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