Gun Control & RKBA
In reply to the discussion: Swiss Balk At EU Concept Of Stripping ‘Assault Rifles’ From The People [View all]jimmy the one
(2,717 posts)icon: I'd call it a variant of the 'Gish Gallop':
he Gish Gallop (also known as proof by verbosity) is the fallacious debating tactic of simply drowning your opponent in a torrent of small, interlocking arguments intended to prevent your opponent from being able to rebut your conclusions in real time. The Gish Gallop is thus essentially a belt-fed cousin of the on the spot fallacy, as it's unreasonable for anyone to have an answer immediately available to every single argument presented in the gallop.
You evidently don't understand properly what a gish gallop is, since simply posting a list would qualify you and your gunbuddies quite regularly. Below is what your own link provides as an example of a gish gallop, and readers can compare my post listing about a dozen single sentence swiss gun rules, and see how friendly icon is again fabricating an asinine rebuttal, since there was no 'on the spot fallacy', as the swiss gun rules come from the swiss constitution (or equivalent):
Example of a GISH GALLOP: HERE are the 100 reasons, released in a dossier issued by the European Foundation, why climate change is natural and not man-made:
1) There is no real scientific proof that the current warming is caused by the rise of greenhouse gases from mans activity.
2) Man-made carbon dioxide emissions throughout human history constitute less than 0.00022 percent of the total naturally emitted from the mantle of the earth during geological history.
3) Warmer periods of the Earths history came around 800 years before rises in CO2 levels.
4) After World War II, there was a huge surge in recorded CO2 emissions but global temperatures fell for four decades after 1940.
5) Throughout the Earths history, temperatures have often been warmer than now and CO2 levels have often been higher more than ten times as high.
6) Significant changes in climate have continually occurred throughout geologic time.
7) The 0.7C increase in the average global temperature over the last hundred years is entirely consistent with well-established, long-term, natural climate trends.
8) The IPCC theory is driven by just 60 scientists and favourable reviewers not the 4,000 usually cited.
9) Leaked e-mails from British climate scientists in a scandal known as Climate-gate - suggest that that has been manipulated to exaggerate global warming
10) A large body of scientific research suggests that the sun is responsible for the greater share of climate change during the past hundred years.
11) Politicians and activiists claim rising sea levels are a direct cause of global warming but sea levels rates have been increasing steadily since the last ice age 10,000 ago
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99) A US Oregon Petition Project stated We urge the United States government to reject the global warming agreement that was written in Kyoto, Japan in December, 1997, and any other similar proposals. The proposed limits on greenhouse gases would harm the environment, hinder the advance of science and technology, and damage the health and welfare of mankind. There is no convincing scientific evidence that human release of CO2, methane, or other greenhouse gasses is causing or will, in the foreseeable future, cause catastrophic heating of the Earths atmosphere and disruption of the Earths climate.
100) A report by the Nongovernmental International Panel on Climate Change concluded We find no support for the IPCCs claim that climate observations during the twentieth century are either unprecedented or provide evidence of an anthropogenic effect on climate.
http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/146138/100-reasons-why-climate-change-is-natural