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.
NO ONE has the right to tell kids to steal anything, even from their parents. People do get killed for stealing!!!!!
All of these actions are crimes
haha, yep, I have heard this. Fire Department comes in to help children map escape routes in case of fire. OH by the way, mark where the guns are, we do not want those to catch fire.
velkum to amerika,komrades..seriously,nobody sees anything wrong with this?like about stealing,and setting up a child to be shot?firearms ARE illegal on school grounds,right? except for the Gestapo,of course
This is stupid and dangerous!!
this is so stupid
Who ever started this should be in jail for such a thought”
Are they nuts , what the Hell is going on in America, Thanks Obama
Idiots
This ia a violation of Title 18, Section 371; Conspiracy to commit Offense or to Defraud the United States. A Class D felony with /$250,000.00 fine or 5 yrs. imprisonment or both for individuals and $500,000.00 fne for any organization such as the PSA. I personally would charge each individual member of the organization. It would prove to be more effective. The group might have the $500,000.00 to pay the fine but as individuals, the members would be hard pressed to come up with $250,000.00 each.