A new gun control PSA produced by Sleeper 13 Productions has a rather unsettling suggestion for how kids can help end gun violence: Steal your parents' guns and take them to school. Then give them to your understandably terrified teacher and say, "Can you take this away? I don't feel safe with a gun in my house."
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