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.
It is very very stupid and dangerous the guns could be loaded!
Yeah like nothing could gone wrong with a child carrying a loaded weapon around in his gym bag … showing it to the other kids etc. pulling it out to give to the teacher. That will go well.
um….HOME SCHOOL YOUR KIDS!! stop letting “them” control you and your kids
Break the law to make a point, fools. Take a gun to school.
The Nazis brainwashed the youth to turn in their parents if they were anti Hitler. All dictatorships employ similar tactics. Obama said he would transform America and he is doing just that. To the liberal “Logic is an enemy and truth is a menace”.
Recruiting youth SS????? Looks like Nazi Germany all over again!
Dumb and stupid ! Here’s your SIGN !!!!
It reminds me of the book 1984. The boy up stairs turns his father in because of things he says in his sleep.
that’s illegal and should be prosecuted!
So the teacher is in position of stolen property.