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.
You just can’t fix stupid.
wait there is one way to stop this buy a Gun safe and make sure your kids don’t know the combo
Gee, Ed…are things one says in their sleep admissible in a court of law?? LOL But then; is there a court of law anymore??
Stupid is & stupid does. If the teachers does that, try them & let them time. If you do the crime, let them do to time. That is what they do to teachers that have sex with students.
Teach Kids that family is just that!
It’s no ones business what happens or is spoke of within your family !
Insane! This does sound like a Nazi Gestapo tactic. How in the hell how can a public service announcement encourage kids to steal a weapon and actually take it to there school and then have turn it over to their teacher? This sounds incredibly reckless and dangerous, what kind of society are we creating and living in? to teach or tell a minor to steal a deadly weapon? And then take it into a public school? Oh my god someone needs to literally be arrested and jailed let alone taking into account this fascist ideology!
Kill the messenger
With the cowardly teachers we have today I’d say it would be very dangerous. Do we really want our children being taught stupidity?
that’s a liberal way of life,lie,steal,cheat.
no way this is disgusting relly teching our kid’s something