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 hit the nail on the head
bann this
Oh Hell no! A bunch of kids bringing guns to school? That’s what Oblama wants!
A loaded gun shouldn’t be anywhere in the reach of any child to begin with!!….Comments like that gives motive to the anti gun idiots!
This is the DUMBEST THING .
I’m betting the anti-gun crowd is counting on it. More dead bodies to stand on and spout their nonsense.
I’m not anti-gun. To ask a child to do this is reckless and stupid. There are some parents that don’t have the good sense to have a loaded gun lying around. A family I know lost a child due to this.
Sure, bring the stolen gun to me, and I’ll have you arrested for theft!
They are trying to make everyone scared to death of a gun. They want to make kids think if somebody owns a gun that they are bad and its wrong . It makes me sixk
this actor actually broke laws on this vid and should be in Juvie court