Spot the Fallacy: Gun Control

The last sentence (The obvious long-intent of the Democrats is to ultimately outlaw all guns) does not necessarily follow from what I see to be the premises. The author would have made a stronger argument for this conclusion by quoting leading Democrats themselves.

non sequitur " If we want to reduce the criminal use of guns, we need to figure out how to solve the broken family problem we have in this society." 

appeal to tradition As to assault rifles, you can use historical perspectives to claim that all guns were “assault” guns at one time or another in history.

strawman fallacy The obvious long term intent of the Democrats is to ultimately outlaw all guns. "

poisoning the well  "The obvious long term intent of the Democrats is to ultimately outlaw all guns. "

conspiracy theory The obvious long term intent of the Democrats is to ultimately outlaw all guns. "

If we want to reduce the criminal use of guns, we need to figure out how to solve the broken family problem we have in this society.

This is an opinion.

As to assault rifles, you can use historical perspectives to claim that all guns were “assault” guns at one time or another in history.

equivocation . While you can "assault" someone with a popsicle stick, the "Assault Rifle" is a specific gun with specific properties only tangentially related to the word "assault". There is no argument here, but an implied one: we always legalized assault weapons so why change things. Besides equivocation, this is also a strawman fallacy .

The obvious long term intent of the Democrats is to ultimately outlaw all guns.

Unsupported claim or opinion. And as Michael points out in his answer, poisoning the well .

If we want to reduce the criminal use of guns, we need to figure out how to solve the broken family problem we have in this society.

A form of petitio principii (begging the question). It begs the question of what causes the criminal use of guns.

This is an effective persuasion technique, by the way, called "thinking past the sale." It would take the form of: "How can we fix the broken family problem that's leading to the criminal use of guns in this country?" When you answer the question, you've accepted the premise (thought past the claim the query was selling).

As to assault rifles, you can use historical perspectives to claim that all guns were “assault” guns at one time or another in history.  

Amphiboly (ambiguity fallacy). An obvious ploy to change the present meaning of "assault weapon" to win the argument. 

The obvious long term intent of the Democrats is to ultimately outlaw all guns.

This sounds like a slippery slope argument to me. The word "obvious" also suggests the alleged certainty fallacy.

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It would be good to have Dr. Bo critique our responses and agree/disagree. The respondent gets a "point" every time Dr. Bo agrees. (Not suggesting a real scoring system. Just imaginary points for fun.)

If we want to reduce the criminal use of guns, we need to figure out how to solve the broken family problem we have in this society.

Non-sequitur

As to assault rifles, you can use historical perspectives to claim that all guns were “assault” guns at one time or another in history. 

Equivocation fallacy

The obvious long term (sic) intent of the Democrats is to ultimately outlaw all guns.

Strawman argument, Poisoning the Well

 If we want to reduce the criminal use of guns, we need to figure out how to solve the broken family problem we have in this society.

So, we assume we have a 'broken family problem', and this is then linked to the criminal use of guns. I'm not seeing the connection here, though some elaboration would help to clarify this person's point of view. This could be begging the question but I'd hold off until I got further information.

As to assault rifles, you can use historical perspectives to claim that all guns were “assault” guns at one time or another in history.

equivocation since "assault" means two things; it can refer to the charge of assault, or a specific category of weapon.

The obvious long term intent of the Democrats is to ultimately outlaw all guns. "

strawman fallacy. Nowhere is it demonstrated this is the Dems' aim (from what I know, they mostly want sensible background checks and restrictions on certain types of weapons, but Repubs are convinced this is a slippery slope to banning all guns.