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.
Not good
That’s not what I meant. I meant hid the guns from your kids so they can’t tell on you if they can’t see the guns. My son would have never said a word. He’s 28 now.
The maker of this video should be sued for endangering children… and also EVERY school that plays this video to kids.
I see, teach your kids to steal and dishonor your parents, right? Sleeper 13 should be sued by a compilation of parents for their violation of their parental rights.
The video has been pulled. It must have caused too many complaints.
They are not allowed to bring one onto the School Campus!!! Sorry but I don’t believe this one.
Next it will be ratting on what their parents say.Get rid of this liberal school system.
It’s STEALING.
I’m sure if a parent was to punish their kid who does this they would be locked up. In fact they probably have paperwork already to hand out to parents who kids do this to inform parents how they will be punished if they punish the kid. Just like the Nazis did. #MuslimBrotherhoodStrikesAgain
Stupid