The utterer of the prayer asks for the most horrible things possible--"tear their soldiers to bloody shreds with our shells; help us to cover their smiling fields with the pale forms of their patriot dead; help us to drown the thunder of the guns with the shrieks of their wounded, writhing in pain; help us to lay waste their humble homes with a hurricane of fire; help us to wring the hearts of their unoffending widows with unavailing grief; help us to turn them out roofless with little children to wander unfriended the wastes of their desolated land in rags and hunger and thirst, sports of the sun flames of summer and the icy winds of winter, broken in spirit, worn with travail, imploring Thee for the refuge of the grave and denied it -- for our sakes who adore
Answer:
An either-or fallacy.
Explanation:
This fallacy occurs when, in this case, the speaker builds an argument under the assumption that there are not more than 2 outcomes or choices for that specific dilemma. In this case, Wesley's persuasive speech about school violence and gun control has "only" two outcomes: either they forbid guns from everyone except police and military or they can expect massacres in schools.
There Will Come Soft Rains<span>" is a science fiction short story by </span>Ray Bradbury<span> whose title is taken from a poem of the same name by Sara Teasdale.</span>
