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.
That is a felony.
this is ridiculous!!!!! 🙁
Isn’t it interesting the video has suddenly been made private and unviewable….. If anybody saved it, keep posting it for all to see!
This is just wrong!!
WORST PSA EVER!!!
I know one child that would have a rude awakening…..if he were my son!…He should have been taught to keep his hands off his parents property and if he was caught in the act…it means real trouble!1
If your child can get your gun then you need charged with child endangering… If your child uses that gun to commit a crime you also should be charged…
You are an idiot
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tell me the difference between your child drinking poison from under your sink or shooting themselves with your gun??? If you are an irresponsible gun owner then you should suffer the consequences….. Life isn’t that important to you then. It takes a back seat to gun safty and ego… You are what is wrong with this country. I bet you are a christian? Would your Jesus own a gun? Would he admit to the facts or would he shoot up a school?