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'Monumentally Stupid' Anti-Gun PSA Urges Kids to Steal Parents’ Firearms [and take them to school]
yahoo.com ^ | December 23, 2014 | Jennifer O'Neill

Posted on 12/24/2014 10:50:04 AM PST by grundle

The controversial Dec. 13 clip from Sleeper 13 Productions in San Francisco, titled “Stop Gun Violence - PSA,” shows a teenage boy take a handgun from his mother’s dresser drawer, stash it in his backpack, and bring it to class. Walking up to his teacher after the period ends, the student slaps the gun on her desk. “Can you take this away?” the child actor asks the shocked teacher. “I don’t feel safe with a gun in my house.”

Then the messages “Our children deserve a safe world” and “Stop gun violence now” are plastered onscreen before production credits run, notably lacking any sponsors or collabor

The Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms even put out a press release detailing the number of crimes depicted in the piece. “We’re talking about felony theft of a firearm, illegal possession of a handgun by a minor, having a gun in a school, illegal concealed carry by a minor, brandishing and maybe one or two other crimes, depending upon the jurisdiction,” wrote chairman Alan Gottlieb on Dec. 22. “… At the very least, the boy in this video would wind up being arrested and face felony charges.” As should the creator, Gottlieb continued: “The message of this video is so monumentally stupid that if any youth does something like this after watching it, the producers should face charges.”

But the filmmaker, Rejina Sincic, told Yahoo Parenting that she stands by the piece and its message. “Kids shouldn’t have access to firearms in their homes,” Sincic emailed Yahoo Parenting, without responding to an inquiry about who sponsored the video. “Violent crimes have been committed by children who wrongfully had access to firearms. Society as a whole should take stricter measures to keep guns out of the hands of children.”

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The YouTube video has been set to private, so I didn't get to watch it. But the article does a thorough job of describing the video.
1 posted on 12/24/2014 10:50:04 AM PST by grundle
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To: grundle

it’s still on vimeo

http://vimeo.com/114422865


2 posted on 12/24/2014 10:54:45 AM PST by PanzerKardinal (Some things are so idiotic only an intellectual would believe it.)
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To: grundle

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFoCxV6QQ-c

its been re uploaded

if this was shown on local tv....it cost em a BUNDLE.....as its not a short clip


3 posted on 12/24/2014 10:56:17 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: grundle

Yup. That sounds like a real swell idear. Kids and teachers arrested for having guns at school. Great plan there moms looking for a little “action”. Didiots!


4 posted on 12/24/2014 10:57:47 AM PST by rktman (Served in the Navy to protect the rights of those that want to take some of mine away. Odd, eh?)
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To: MeshugeMikey

how many kids will end up getting killed or arrested because of this


5 posted on 12/24/2014 10:58:25 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: grundle

Eddie Eagle say “No”.


6 posted on 12/24/2014 10:58:46 AM PST by Dalberg-Acton
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To: GeronL

yo yo YO YO

i was ready to steal muh moms NINE...but didn get it together until I seen this VIDEO...

peas out...


7 posted on 12/24/2014 10:59:40 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

if this was shown on local tv


Respectfully, no lawyer worth his/her salt would advise their client (TV station) to air this video, due to liability concerns. I was shocked that this was in ultra liberal Yahoo!


8 posted on 12/24/2014 11:00:51 AM PST by jttpwalsh
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To: grundle

Isn’t this wreckless child endangerment? Shouldn’t it be actionable.


9 posted on 12/24/2014 11:01:23 AM PST by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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To: GeronL
The NRA has the Eddie Eagle GunSafe program that comes to schools and teaches firearm safety to young children.
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If you see a gun:
STOP!
Don't Touch.
Leave the Area.
Tell an Adult.
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This ad violates every single aspect of gun safety for children. It was clearly produced by people whose entire knowledge of firearms is, "They're evil."

It literally teaches:
Pick up the gun. (Is it loaded? Who knows?)
Hide it in your backpack. (What could possibly go wrong?)
Carry it to school. (Seriously?)
Walk up to a teacher and pull it out.

So that's like four or five felonies the kid has committed.

You know, I bet they thought it was really wise to show the kid waiting until the other kids left the room. As if the teacher wouldn't just about mess their pants when they saw a lone kid hang back and then pull a Glock out of his backpack.

Jeez Loueez...

Not only that but did you catch the whole "turn in your parents" vibe?
"Your parents are dangerous and stupid. Turn their evil weapons over to us. We will protect you."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RBTbA6_nkXw
10 posted on 12/24/2014 11:01:23 AM PST by servo1969
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To: servo1969

bump


11 posted on 12/24/2014 11:03:41 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: jttpwalsh

somebody wants and all out civil war....and it isnt joe average

http://www.gangpreventionservices.org/BGF.asp


12 posted on 12/24/2014 11:04:08 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: MeshugeMikey

lol


13 posted on 12/24/2014 11:06:04 AM PST by GeronL (Vote for Conservatives not for Republicans)
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To: GeronL

I saw the video, and I want to know what the kid was doing in his mom’s underwear drawer?


14 posted on 12/24/2014 11:08:19 AM PST by rickomatic
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To: grundle
It's a perfect PSA for libtards and a back-door means for them to disarm a few people.

Consider: any kid that does this will probably be charged with several felonies. Theft of a firearm. Illegal concealed carry on the way to school. Taking a firearm onto school grounds. Even if they are charged and convicted as a minor they will never be able to legally own firearms.

Bonus round for the libtards. The parents will be charged with negligence, child endangerment, some kind of domestic "violence" charge etc. for leaving the weapon(s) out where the kids could get at them to steal them. Almost certainly disqualifies them from owning or ever legally purchasing firearms again.

Net result is the libtards get to disarm 2 or 3 otherwise law abiding citizens. FU liberals and every single lib lurker reading this. You are un-American, anti-American. You are liars, cheats, and the worst kind of people. I don't know how you can live with yourselves.

15 posted on 12/24/2014 11:10:33 AM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obarma now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: grundle

What is it with Libs? Did they find a secret stash of airplane glue and sniff it until nothing was left of their brain?

This spot wasn’t created by one person. A collective put it together and each of them lacked the capacity to grasp this was shockingly ignorant, even extremely dangerous.

And these people think those with like minds should be in charge.

What’s more, essentially today they are.


16 posted on 12/24/2014 11:12:59 AM PST by DoughtyOne (The question is Jeb Bush. The answer is NO!)
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To: rickomatic

he initially discovered the gun by accident....?


17 posted on 12/24/2014 11:13:33 AM PST by MeshugeMikey ("Never, Never, Never, Give Up," Winston Churchill ><>)
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To: DoughtyOne

That’s what I thought. Is it legal to tell children to break the law and endanger them at the same time?


18 posted on 12/24/2014 11:13:43 AM PST by JudyinCanada
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To: MeshugeMikey

somebody wants and all out civil war....and it isnt joe average


Wow, that’s pretty bad stuff. I will have to read it in full, a bit later. These knuckleheads don’t realize that Joe Average is better armed, in terms of total numbers, and is much more proficient with his firearms. Thanks for the information.


19 posted on 12/24/2014 11:14:05 AM PST by jttpwalsh
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To: servo1969
"Your parents are dangerous and stupid. Turn their evil weapons over to us. We will protect you."

In prison. Because prisons must be the safest places, because there are very few guns in prisons.

20 posted on 12/24/2014 11:15:48 AM PST by Sooth2222 ("In a democracy people get the leaders they deserve." - Joseph de Maistre, 1753-1821)
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