PSA Features Student Who Takes A Gun To School... To Turn It In To The Teacher

A filmmaker, Rejina Sincic, has faced harsh criticism for a gun control PSA that features a teenage boy who takes his family’s firearm to school and then turns it in to the teacher because he doesn’t feel safe with it in his home. There’s been so much backlash that Sincic pulled down the original post of the clip and reposted it with the comments disabled.

Clearly, Sincic’s goal was to shock viewers into paying attention, but there are some who say the video, presented without context, could have the opposite of its intended effect.

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