Analyze each of the following arguments in terms of new case, comparison cases, known similarities, and inferred similarity. Then indicate what seems to you the most significant relevant dissimilarity between the new case and the sample cases.

 

1. Opposing legislation that would restrict handgun ownership in the United Kingdom, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, reasoned as follows: "Look, if a cricketer, for instance, suddenly decided to go into a school and batter a lot of people to death with a cricket bat, which he could do very easily, are you going to ban cricket bats?" (BBC interview, 1996)

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