Charlie Cooke takes down the latest anti-gun absurdity:

One can only imagine that the spot's producers consider their set up to be inordinately clever. "Hey," you can almost hear them say, "we'll make it look as if there's going to be a school shooting, and then he'll hand it over to his teacher and all will be well!" In fact, it is difficult to imagine a more irresponsible storyline. We're talking about children here, remember - impressionable, easily led, ignorant children. (Adults are an entirely separate question.) As a rule, we teach our kids that they if they see a firearm they should refrain from touching it, and go and tell an adult. In the commercial, however, the child is shown doing the exact opposite. "If you see a gun," the ad suggests, "pick it up, put it in a bag, and then jostle it around in front of other children." One can only wonder at how many kids will now need to be told that they must not, under any circumstances, do this.

Moreover, in the course of his little ploy, the kid breaks pretty much every law on the books. He takes a gun out of his house (not only is this felony burglary, but he's not old enough to carry a firearm in public); he then takes that gun into a school (that's against federal and state law); and, finally, he transfers it to a teacher without a background check, thereby breaking the very rule that progressives tell us is necessary to keep us all safe from gun violence. And for what, pray? Typically, anti-gun commercials focus in on a specific safety issue: a lack of trigger locks, or background checks, or safe-storage, for example. This one seems to feature a child who is saying, "I don't want any guns in the house at all." This absolute approach is extreme, even for today's class of wildly incompetent control freaks. Worse, perhaps, the child seems to believe that the public school system exists as a general service that he might use if he wishes to deprive his parents of their constitutional rights - an implication, let's say, that is unlikely to win many converts.

And here's Eugene Volokh's take on the same video:

(T)he ad strikes me as pretty appalling. I doubt that it's persuasive advocacy for the proposition that people shouldn't keep guns, shouldn't keep guns when they have children in the house, or shouldn't keep guns unlocked when they have children in the house. (Whether those are sound propositions is a separate question; I'm just saying the ad doesn't really make much of an argument for them.) But I can imagine some impressionable teenager seeing what the appealing protagonist is doing, and trying to copy it, especially since the serious tone of the video seems to invite its being taken seriously. And the results could include expulsion, criminal prosecution, or even death.

The video in question is at the links, but in case you don't feel like clicking through: