Gun Control & RKBA

straw man: However, your information is still erroneous.

My premise is correct, as you yourself attested to.

analagous straw man: The Pinto was typical of the small cars that were rushed into production following the oil embargo of 1973. This kind of car delivered good gas mileage but often suffered from poor design and inadequate performance.

Now consider the article title excerpted above being 'A Study of the Ford Pinto'.... The Pinto was typical of the small cars that were rushed into production following the oil embargo of 1973. This kind of car delivered good gas mileage but often...

Quite reasonable to think 'this kind of car' referred back to the pinto.

Recall the title of this thread, which focused on the AR15, not semi auto rifles:
Sandy Hook families take gun case to state Supreme Court ... The 10 families whose lawsuit against the world’s largest dealer of AR-15 rifles was dismissed last year say their case should be reinstated...

then add on, in the OP itself, his remark which I challenged, thinking he was referring back to the subject of his OP:
The AR-15 is functionally no different from any other semi-automatic rifle that accepts a detachable magazine. There are literally 10s of millions of this kind of rifle, owned by, again, literally 10s of millions of law-abiding citizens,..
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straw man: The rule for demonstrative pronouns like "this" is the same as the rule for all pronouns: when in doubt, they refer to the closest antecedent,

You agree that the sentence wording made what tupper was referring to 'in doubt', by your above wording. Thank you, you make my case. My reply took this doubt into account when I wrote my reply:

tupper: The AR-15 is functionally no different from any other semi-automatic rifle that accepts a detachable magazine. There are literally 10s of millions of this kind of rifle, owned by, again, literally 10s of millions of law-abiding citizens,..

jimmy reply #3, asking what he was referring to: Are you saying that 10's of millions of AR15s are owned by americans? are you trying to say about 20 million and going hyper? ...
I challenge on this basis that 10's of millions of americans own an ar15, pls provide a source (at least 20 millions by you).

I challenged on the basis of his uncertain wording, sloppy & ambiguous, and clearly qualified my challenge tentatively on 'this basis', being his referring to the AR15, which it seemed he was.

aside: I once owned a pinto, or at least my ex-wife did, thought it was OK. The chevette a different story, with the aluminum block it was junk after about 55,000 miles when the block warped. Just like they said it might. At least it was relatively cheap to begin with.