Honestly if there weren’t so many active gun related threads at the moment, I would probably have left that thread alone and not closed it. But it was already heating up and built off an unrealistic speculation. I closed another gun thread very recently for the same reason.
Here is the other similar gun fantasy thread I closed:
And to go completely meta, my thread to discuss gun threads and how often they get hijacked, got completely hijacked. I probably should have handed out warnings but instead opted to close my own thread.