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'Devoid of any applications or social context or anything. Just as a thing by itself.'

A gun, in and of itself, is just a hunk of elaborately constructed metal, incapable of doing anything either constructive or deadly. It is only when it is place in a literary, social, or manipulative context that it becomes anything at all.

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