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What does it mean?
The speaker associates the weapon with the violence of the streets and lack of peace.
In plain terms
The gun connects to street violence and no peace in the community.
What can you take from it?
Violence persists without peace.

Where it applies

  • street life
  • urban struggle
  • peace efforts

Putting it to work

  • community peace initiatives
  • violence interruption

Questions to consider

  • What stops peace in communities?
  • How do weapons affect daily life?

Another view

Focusing on the gun ignores the causes.

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  2. All we know is violence, do tha job in silence/Walk tha city streets like a rat pack of tyrants

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  3. You know they got me trapped in this prison of seclusion/Happiness, living on tha streets is a delusion

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