Oakland school disowns gun control video made on campus

[friendly_iconoclast]

http://www.contracostatimes.com/contra-costa-times/ci_27196097/oakland-school-disowns-gun-control-video-made-campus

Oakland school disowns gun control video made on campus


OAKLAND -- A charter school here is distancing itself from a controversial anti-gun video filmed on campus over the summer that shows a student bringing a gun to school and giving it to his teacher.

North Oakland Community Charter School Director Carolyn Gramstorff said the school rented space to San Francisco filmmaker Rejina Sincic but had no idea the content would become so divisive on both sides of the gun control debate...

...The film, called "Stop Gun Violence-PSA", is getting negative comments from all sides of the debate on gun control because it shows a kid bringing a gun to school in his backpack.

"We do not advocate for children to bring guns, real or fake, to school," Gramstorff said when contacted by telephone in Florida on Tuesday.

Protip: encouraging kids to commit multiple felonies *might not* be such a great idea:

Other antigun types are already implying that this video is some sort of
'false-flag' operation:

http://www.vocativ.com/culture/society/gun-violence-psa-director-rejina-sincic/

Despite the relentless attacks, those who share Sincic’s perspective haven’t exactly rushed to her defense. In fact, one of the country’s leading gun control advocacy groups on Tuesday all-but threw her under the bus, suggesting that she may have been hired by right wing activists to stir controversy and anger.

“I smell a rat here,” Ladd Everitt, a spokesman for the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, told Vocativ on Tuesday. “To me, this reeks of something that’s been planted.”

“It’s shocking how this suddenly went viral on right wing media when no one in our movement is promoting this video,” Everitt continued. “I’m actively questioning who this woman is. And I’d like to know who paid for this and why.”

And here we've been told recently here at DU that it's *gun owners* that are paranoid...

[NYC_SKP]

1. Glad to see this ridiculous video being ridiculed.

It earned it.

Interesting, the filmaker, Rejina Sincic, seems to like making violent films, about killing and stuff:

[sarisataka]

2. Well,

Gramstorff issued a statement on the video, saying the school "did not review, approve, or endorse the YouTube video. No students, staff or board members were involved in the video. We were not aware of the contents of the video nor were we aware that our name would be used."

Gramstorff could not say how much money her school was paid to film at her school.

good thing they didn't rent space to a porn company...

[Nuclear Unicorn]

3. What's next on Stupid Controller Tricks?

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We've already got controllers calling in people as armed and potentially dangerous and that has led to police shooting people holding BB guns and airsoft rifles.

Now this.

It seems as if the desperation, self-imposed fear-mongering and disconnect from reality are leading to increasingly irrational and reckless acts. I shudder to think what the next Surefire-Gimmick-to-Teach-Those-Crazy-Gunners-a-Lesson is going to look like.

[AtheistCrusader]

4. Oh hell, it's worse than felonies.

Consider the all-hands-on-deck holy shitballs grab your guns we gotta get to the school NOW, 'Student with a gun' response local law enforcement are going to whip out.

The chances of a person wholly unrelated to and completely innocent of anything getting shot is non-zero.