“I’m here at the scene of tomorrow’s shooting,” starts the stricken-faced television news reporter, standing in front of a school building.
That’s how the unsettling new PSA from Sandy Hook Promise opens, and as the minute-and-a-half spot continues, the faux news broadcast features interviews with students and teachers all giving their perspectives on a shooting by a 15-year-old that will happen at their school the next day.
The PSA is timed to the five-year anniversary of the horrific school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, which took place on Dec. 14, 2012. Sandy Hook Promise is a gun violence prevention group, co-founded by two parents who lost their children in the shooting. They want to raise awareness about the risk factors and red flags indicating that someone might commit gun violence, so that people can take action and potentially prevent yet another tragedy.
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