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

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The passage presents a series of statements and contrasts to lead to the conclusion that there is a moral inconsistency or problem with how society views guns and abortion, indicating an argument is being made.

Let's Get This Straight Now