For those of you who, like myself, are addicted to "The Daily Show with Jon Stewart," Comedy Central's program that makes fun of current events, you may have witnessed something very disturbing on the episode that aired on Monday, Feb. 24. It featured a man whose name I cannot recall who started a very unique program in Harlem, a neighborhood in New York City, called Guns for Tots. Members of the program stood outside of a public elementary school handing out toy guns to children. He felt that this distribution would enable children to be safer weapon users.Luckily, this program was met with opposition. The video footage showed an angry mother shouting at the distributors to "go away," a young girl saying that playing with guns is not a wise thing to do and that she had no interest in them and a boy ripping a gun out of the package, throwing it on the ground and stepping on it.

This was not the first program that this man has initiated that seems a bit unwise. Before this, he and his Libertarian friends handed out cigarettes in the streets. Naturally, this was also met by much opposition.

What was by far most disturbing about this report was the man's own child. After telling the interviewer, Stephen Colbert, that he wanted to teach his own daughter, 15-months-old, to be a gun consumer, there was a shot of a very young girl handling a very real gun with a big smile on her face. If this wasn't disturbing enough, the "Moment of Zen" for the day (the clip that's shown at the end of every show which is not always Zen-full) showed the same girl taking the gun out of a package and placing the barrel in her mouth.

This clip literally made me scream. If only Michael Moore, the director/writer of the popular documentary "Bowling for Columbine" could have seen this footage, I would love to hear his commentary. Seeing that child hold that real handgun up to her mouth while smiling chilled me to the bone.

There is of course some debate as to whether or not toy guns lead to gun violence. I personally owned toy water guns as a child, and I am currently very much in favor of keeping guns (toy or not) away from children. However, what occurred in that footage is abominable. In my not so humble opinion, no 15-month-old child should be holding a gun (let alone holding it to her mouth), and no man should be handing out toy guns to elementary school children on the streets of Harlem. This was a horrible idea for a campaign, and I do not foresee any worthwhile results of it.

Colbert commented that "Guns don't kill people, children kill people," amending the popular slogan by changing the last part from "people kill people". Like most of the Daily Show, this quote was meant as a satire. Though the guns handed out on the street are not real, they can definitely have real consequences, and can lead to even more gun violence in a nation that already has a bad reputation for homicides.