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Should you need any further proof that anti-gun mania turns some people into clinical phobics, melting their ethics alarms and leaving all rationality behind, I give you this, a recent public service video out of San Francisco’s Sleeper 13 Productions:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KxjPKgpeXC4

Could such an ad be more irresponsible? It urges children to

• Go looking for their parents guns (and why did is the gun in the video where a kid can have access to it?);
• Pick them  up and handle them (Is the gun loaded?);
• Steal the guns ( Any gun? Shotguns? Rifles? Semi-automatic weapons?)
• Take the guns to school, breaking the law in the process;
• Turn them over to their teachers, who also may have no business handling one.

In the process of this well-intentioned, hysterical brain rot, the PSA also encourages children to be terrified if their parents own a gun, though there is no context at all in the video. Is a parent a cop? An FBA agent? A gun collector? A hunter? A trained marksman? Clint Eastwood? James Bond? Never mind: steal the gun. This attitude is the tell-tale symptom of an anti-gun zealot: it’s the gun itself that is dangerous, and who owns or wields it is irrelevant. Continue reading →