A gun’s firepower shapes the user’s sense of agency and power

Evidence

A gun is inanimate, but through its intended firepower it also influences a person’s sense of agency (Selinger, 2012). The agentic transformative power of a gun is captured in an ad from an earlier era for the Colt . gun. It was often called the great equalizer that made the little man as big as the largest man in the West. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 1136