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SFGate Mommy Files blogger (interestingly, there is no “Daddy Files,” guess y’all Dads are on your own!) Amy Graff shakes her comment-bait moneymaker* today with a post headlined “Should kids be allowed to play with BB guns?“

She goes on to cite statistics, quote recommendations from parenting groups (they’re against it!), but fails to mention one important fact: SFPD will cite or even arrest your ass for BB gun possession.

Yup! Even though, as SF Weekly points out, “the city’s anti-BB gun ordinance has been obsolete since 2004,” they quote an SFPD sergeant as saying “until the chief of police tells us not to cite on this offense, we will continue to do the citations.”

Predictably, Gate commenters fail to mention this aspect of the issue. Does this speak to their nonSFness, or their general ignorance? You be the judge. I just know if I posted something like that, I can think of at least three of you who’d be all up in my shit re. SFPD’s stance on the issue. And I love you for it!

*not that we’re judging comment bait! Big fans of comment bait over here.

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Eve Batey is the editor and publisher of the San Francisco Appeal. She used to be the San Francisco Chronicle's Deputy Managing Editor for Online, and started at the Chronicle as their blogging and interactive editor. Before that, she was a co-founding writer and the lead editor of SFist. She's been in the city since 1997, presently living in the Outer Sunset with her husband, cat, and dog. You can reach Eve at eve@sfappeal.com.

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