He never argued that anyone wanted the gun so they could shoot children. He said the opposite in both post #34 and post #44.
Yes, it’s possible that the thread would not have gone so badly if she had told everybody to cool down or had given a note in response to a couple of posts. But the post wasn’t a political hijack - the use of the gun in that massacre isn’t political - and I don’t think it was a threadshit.