Gun control PSA urges kids to steal parents' guns and give them to teachers

Gun control PSA urges kids to steal parents&#039; guns and give them to teachers — (Image credit: YouTube.com/Screenshot)

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."

Even assuming the gun hand-off went as smoothly and safely as the video depicts — which critics have noted seems unlikely — in real life the boy would at least face suspension, if not expulsion or worse, for breaking multiple laws. Earlier this year, for example, a 5-year-old was suspended for turning in the toy gun he accidentally brought to school; another little boy was suspended just for pointing his finger like a gun.

The creator of the PSA stands by her work, tweeting, "Lot of people are afraid to share my PSA! If you are not a coward please share."

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Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.