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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PAGING GODWIN, PAGING GODWIN. [/quote]

This!  Even Mackey was a few degrees away from Godwin when he compared Obamacare to fascism.  He walked that back fast.[/quote]

The Original Post is worse than Godwin's law.  Godwin's law merely states that as an Internet thread continues, the more likely someone is to invoke the name of Hitler.  Yes, the Original Post was predicted by that law.

But it's worse. Here, the OP commits the logical fallacy of Reductio Ad Hitler, which is a sub-species of the Ignitio Elenchi fallacy, which basically means invoking an argument that is irrelevant. No argument is refuted simply because Hitler shared the same view.  But the Reductio ad Hitler fallacy carries with it all the additional opprobrium of the Holocaust which makes it even more repugnant.  Fallacious reasoning does not advance any debate yet those opposed to further restrictions on guns seem to tap into a never-ending spring of novel, but fallacious arguments.

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