Is this from The Onion?
“Oh look honey what I found under the sofa...its an AK47 I believe with one of those big banana clip things. I wonder where that came from? We really do need to clean up more often.”
“Is this from The Onion?”
Regrettably, no. There is a mindset that seems to think that if they think it or say it (thinking is actually optional), then it must be accomplished. Like the Pharaoh of Egypt in “The Ten Commandments” was fond of saying, “So let it be written, so let it be done.”
We are subject to a mindset which is approaching that of ancient Egypt.
At one time I had fantasies that the the trusty “six-shooter” cap gun I had could be converted into a real weapon firing real bullets. Limitations of physics and my capabilities soon ruled that out.