Question

According to your textbook, the following statement is an example of what type of fallacy?"If we allow the government to restrict the sale of semiautomatic weapons, before we know it, there will be a ban on ownership of handguns and even hunting rifles. And once our constitutional right to bear arms has been compromised, the right of free speech will be the next to go."

Answer 1

Answer:

These are the options for the question:

• either-or
• ad hominem
• slippery slope
• bandwagon
• invalid analogy

And this is the correct answer:

• slippery slope

Explanation:

The slippery slope fallacy consists in stating that a small step or decision, will lead to a series of events or other decisions that will result in very negative, unintended consequences.

The slippery slope fallacy is sometimes used with the goal of scaring the other party in order to change his views out of fearmongering.

In this case, we have an example of the slippery slope fallacy, because a party is stating that the ban of semiautomatic weapons will necessarily result in a chain of related events whose final consequence is nothing less than the banning of free speech rights.