A local company called Sleeper 13 Productions posted this video a couple weeks ago that advocates for ending gun violence by having kids steal their parents' handguns and turn them in to teachers at school. It's a bizarre tactic, considering you're not only encouraging theft and dishonesty, but also telling kids to carry potentially loaded weapons to school. But hey! Guns are bad, right?
The woman behind it is Rejina Sincic, and she tweeted the following:
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
The creepy thing is that the video is set up, suspensefully, to make you think the kid is going to shoot up his school. But then he just turns the gun in.
The video got picked up by The Blaze, and subsequently by The Washington Times, as gun-rights people have gotten upset by it, and have rightly pointed out that it's kind of misguided.
As one person wrote on Facebook, "So, when a child does this and accidentally kills himself or an innocent bystander, will Sleeper 13 Productions and Ragina Sincic [sic] be brought up on charges as an accessory? This has got to be one of the dumbest PSA’s put out by anti-gunners ever. Way to combat criminal violence turn innocent children into felons.”
The video was shot at the North Oakland Community Charter School, and school officials sound kind of perturbed by it as well, now that they've learned the message behind it.