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.
My kid know better…they know those guns are there for a reason TO PROTECT THEM!
Oh now that will keep everyone at school safe won’ it?
Brain DEAD people. . If people and kids don’t wake up they will when there put into a fema camp and killed just like Hitler killed .
That is theft straight up, if that was my kid he would do time.
That is stupid someone could get hurt and it is stealing against the law.
Why have they not been arrested for conspiracy by now??
Kid is going to jail, under age carrying gun et!!!
Kids who bring guns to school get expelled. DUH. Otherwise, any kid could bring a gun any time, and if he/she gets caught, just say “I was gonna turn it in to the teacher, I swear.”
Lunacy!!
Anyone who has studied history wlll recall the parallels: Hitler and Stalin encouraged children to spy on their parents and turn them in for “disloyal” behavior.