Problem 1: Can you please identify the audience of the selection and explain why you believe they are the audience. Then, explain at least two (2) rhetorical devices or fallacies that you identify in the argument. Demonstrate why they are that device or fallacy.
Problem 2: Let's be clear, the [New York Civil Liberties Union]'s priority is not protecting our safety. It is protecting their ideology. And in that regard, they are no better than the NRA. One group views the Second Amendment in absolutist terms; the other group views the Fourth Amendment in absolutist terms. Both groups, I think, are dangerously wrong on the Constitution. The right to bear arms and the right to privacy do not trump the right of citizens to walk down their own street, or walk down their own hallway, without getting blown away. You'd think that would be common sense! - Michael Bloomberg, at Allen A.M.E. Cathedral, Queens, New York, 7/2012
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