Thread:Comments:Gun background checks a no-go in US Senate/The mission of the U.S. government is not to keep the people SAFE; it is to keep them FREE/reply (8)

Not all ad hominem arguments are personal attacks. Yours was an ad hominem argument that was not an attack. Your post was not without merit, and if this had been a discussion about forms of rhetoric, I would have enthusiastically explored your idea about how form can be deceptive. But my position remains that rather than suggest that my post employed a deceptive form, intentionally or otherwise, you should have just exposed the deception. You still have not done so, and you have provided no reason for either me or sympathetic readers to abandon the opinion that I expressed in the allegedly deceptive post.