Friday, December 26, 2014

About That Clumsy Anti-gun PSA

     --The one that shows a child taking a handgun from his mother's dresser and bringing it to school so his teacher can "take it away?"  Even the State of California Department of Justice (Kamala D. Harris, Attorney General) "Tips for Gun Owners" page clearly addresses the basic notion, showing it to be dangerous and a violation of state law.  (Yes, California has "safe storage" laws, with the express intent of preventing minors from having unsupervised access to firearms.  Agree or not, there they are).

     ...And the page's "Rules For Kids" section is straight from NRA's "Eddie Eagle" gun safety program: Stop!  Don't touch!  Leave the area.  Tell an adult.  AG Kamala Harris and the NRA, at nearly opposite ends of the political spectrum, agree word-for-word on what a child should do when encountering an unsecured firearm -- and it isn't "take it to school and give it to your teacher."

     I found that out with a fifteen-second web search. The production company could have done the same but instead produced a message so inept that even many anti-gun people are crying foul or "false flag," and just this once, I don't blame them.   Oh, it's fun when one's opponents make mistakes, but this was so over-the top that it's almost sad -- or, if applied in the real world, tragic.

     (The video has been made "private" on YouTube, but the producer's web-page still has a Vimeo version, which shows up in search engines if you search on her name.)

5 comments:

Fuzzy Curmudgeon said...

It's still being pimped on the producers' FB page, too. The comments are hilarious.

(Oh, I see you saw that. :) )

rickn8or said...

Oh, just have the SWAT team drop by and pick it up...

(And once again, just how effective is a "Private" PSA??)

Old NFO said...

+1 on Fuzzy... sigh... idjits...

Windy Wilson said...

I wondered if it was a false flag op when I saw the boy's index finger outside the trigger guard paralleling the barrel when he handled the pistol. for someone untrained in its use, that's pretty strange.

Roberta X said...

He doesn't start out doing so; when he first takes the gun from the drawer, his index finger goes right into the trigger guard. If it was shot in sequence, he may have had some advice from a crew member.