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’ll keep them safe for sure…
Disgraceful
Well if you can’t convince the parents to turn in their guns, you can convince the kids to turn in for them, cause the kids a are more gullible, I think it’s a good strategy, you have to do whatever works!
TURNING KID’S AGAINST THEIR PARENTS. JUST LIKE HITLER.
Not good.
Well besides the obvious! Kids are not supposed to bring guns to school. This is very dangerous, and teaches them stealing is ok, and to have no respect for our rights!
What is wrong with this country? Oh yeah I remember. It’s the parents who are unwilling to teach anything to their children.
Yes, and shoot a few classmates when they try to take the gun away. What in the hell is wrong with these sick gestapo idiots.
what numb skull thought of that?
yes , yes that is the word , NAZIS , the schools the teachers , even the lunch people have all turned to the dark side n want to teach these foul things to your kids n grand kids , i for 1 will stand against them , you all do what ever you feel is right n just