Let's get this straight now. Guns, evil. Abortion, good. Restrictions on gun ownership. Federal protection of abortion clinics and abortionists. Register your guns, but you don't have to tell your parents or the father you're having an abortion. A relative handful of kids tragically get killed because a few people went beserk or played with their daddy's gun; but thousands of kids are killed every year by abortion. Guns evil? Abortion good? There is something really, really wrong going on here. (From a newspaper call-in column)This passage is made up of a(n) ________ and a(n) ________.

A. argument; conclusion: Guns are good and abortion is evil
B. argument; conclusion; There is something really, really wrong here
C. nonargument; conditional statement
D. nonargument; unsupported assertion


Answer: B

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