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 Guns allowed on School Property !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
NAZISM is establishing itself!!!
A bunch of bull
Tell a child to commit not one crime but at least four. Stealing the gun, possessing the gun without a licence, transporting the gun illegally, providing a bonified moron with a firearm.
I see a huge law suit coming..these idiots..
This is stupid
Sounds like our government, make them felons early!
Someone stole Hitler’s idea…….that is where he started (with the kids ratting on their parents and their home life) This is not free speech, this is not artistic art……………..this is sheer madness on the part of the Anti-gun PSA!
Pretty darn stupid!
well then the PSA better get ready to be charged with receiving stolen property and spending a lot of time in jail or prison