United States Marshals Are Allowed to Carry Loaded Guns in the Courtroom

question 79

Multiple Choice

United States Marshals are allowed to carry loaded guns in the courtroom. But attorneys are officers of the court, no less than U.S. Marshals. Therefore, attorneys are allowed to carry loaded guns in the courtroom.

• A) Weak analogy.
• B) No fallacy.
• C) Appeal to unqualified authority.
• D) Hasty generalization.
• E) Equivocation.

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Definitions:

Isotope

Variants of a particular chemical element that differ in neutron number, and consequently in nucleon number, but have the same number of protons.

Protons

Positively charged particles located in the nucleus of an atom, contributing to the atom's mass and charge.

Isotope

Atoms of the same element with the same number of protons but different numbers of neutrons, leading to different atomic masses.

Element

An element is a substance consisting of atoms which all have the same number of protons, classically considered the simplest substances that cannot be broken down using chemical reactions.