Media Activity 6.1

Manipulation through Fallacies and Rhetoric

1. Scrutinize this tweet and answer the question that follows.

A tweet from John Delaney reads If the N R A opposes and uses its PAC money to block something that 97 percent of Americans support then they are arguably an antidemocratic organization because they are blocking the will of the people. There is a photo of a hand with a gun and the text near it reads Poll: 97 percent support background checks for all gun buyers Support for universal background checks has hit a record high, according to a new poll conducted in the wake of last week's deadly the hill dot com.

https://www.intellectualtakeout.org/article/logical-fallacies-gun-debate/

What logical fallacy is being used here?

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