In a PSA created by the San Francisco-based production company, Sleeper 13, children are encouraged to steal their parents gun, take it to school and turn it over to their parents.
This not only encourages children to break several laws, but puts their safety at risk.
The boy is shown opening the drawer to his mother’s dresser, where a handgun is hidden.
The boy takes the gun from the dresser and leaves the room. The ad then flashes to his school. Sitting in a classroom, the boy ventures up to his teacher’s desk after the rest of his classmates have left.
The tension building in the scene breaks, and the boy produces the gun from his backpack, slamming it on his startled teacher’s desk.
“Can you take this away? I don’t feel safe with a gun in my house,” the boy says.
What the ad-makers are encouraging is highly illegal and invites danger.
The boy would be guilty of weapons theft, illegal concealed carry and carrying a weapon on school property.
The ad’s director, Rejina Sencic, took to Twitter to taunt those she says are “afraid to share” her ad.
Lot of people are afraid to share my PSA! If you are not a coward please share https://t.co/q2sisRKCN1 … … #gunviolence
— Rejina Sincic (@QueenSincic) December 17, 2014
Requests for comment made to Sleeper 13 Productions and to Sincic were not immediately returned.
the idiot who came up with this idea should be put in prison for child endangerment
But if he had made a gun shaped pop tart he’d have been expelled. Or if they had caught him with the gun anywhere near the campus. This is the worst ad I think I’ve ever seen. It is theft, and she has the right to own a gun.
If the kid is nervous about having a gun in the house, why doesn’t he talk to his mom and ask her to get a gun safe for it (which would be a great idea) and teach him about gun safety. There have been kids his age protect their families-siblings, grandparents, and themselves, with guns when someone broke into their houses.
who’s bright idea was this?? sounds like obama!
I don’t believe it
Parents better have a long talk with there kids and raise them right.
the communists trained children to spy on their families and report wrongdoings. are communists in our schools ??
Brings back memories of Nazi Germany and Hitler! Dangerous and scary!
Stupid idea.
Dumbest thing a kid could do. At the least he will be thrown in jail., At worst shot.
Omg ????