Response to Huffington Post Article “Half of Gun Owners Support an Assault Rifle Ban, So Why Are Politicians Still So Afraid of the NRA?” By Mike Weisser

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author's bias makes itself known as he states "those readers in the pro-gun community will please do everyone a favor and keep their comments to themselves." This contempt shown for opposing views alienates a large part of the audience, which for a large publication like the Huffington Post is simply bad scholarship. It shows a deep unwillingness to interpret contradictory information; something that is truly necessary for someone attempting to bring audiences closer to the truth. In fact, it is much more difficult to argue for a certain point if one does not make oneself cognizant of the counterpoint.
The article goes into the issue of banning assault weapons next. He uses the strawman fallacy, a technique that creates a narrative in which the opinions of one individual or entity is used as a template for the basic arguing position of opposing views. This is done so that a generally weaker argument can be assigned to the opposition as a whole, therefore making it easier to ...

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