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

d. straw man

Explanation:

The options for this answer are missing. The options are:

A. either-or reasoning

B. false cause

C. induction

D. straw man

The straw man fallacy is a fallacy where the person gives the impression of refusing an argument that was made by an adversary when, in reality, this argument was not made by the adversaries themselves. This is done in order to confuse the crowd and to make them believe that the adversary is the enemy to beat. It also makes the adversary seems as someone easier to attack, like a "straw man"

In this example the speaker says "People who favor gun control want to turn our society over to the criminals. Therefore, we must ignore these gun-control advocates". We can see that he says that people who favor gun control want to turn society over to criminals, but these people actually never said that and this argument was never made by these people themselves. Therefore, he is trying to attack them by using an argument that is not real and that puts the crowd against them. Therefore, this is an example of the straw man fallacy.