There’s nothing like jumping on social media to publicly clutch your pearls after being triggered about a toy gun – but it’s even better when it’s done by an anti-gun legislator. That’s right – San Francisco Democrat Assemblyman David Chiu was so distressed at the sight of finding plastic packaging of an airsoft gun that he wanted the world to know, so he took to Twitter and wrote “Finding the discarded packaging of a semi-automatic on a leisurely weekend walk was disturbing, particularly during this month’s surge of gun violence in San Francisco.” He has since deleted the embarrassing tweet but still said it was disturbing to see “remnants of a weapon that could cause injury.” OK, big guy. We’ll wait for your vote against your colleague's bill to reduce sentence enhancements for crimes committed with a gun…
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