Insanely dangerous! Anti-gun public service announcement encourages kids to steal parents' guns and turn them in to teachers

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A provocative public service announcement released by a San Francisco-based production company encourages children to put themselves at risk and commit a slew of crimes by stealing their parents' guns from home and turning them in at school.

In the anti-gun ad, published Dec. 13 by Sleeper 13 Productions, a boy who appears to be in his early teens is shown walking up the stairs of his home and wandering into his mother's bedroom.


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.

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