UPI en Español  |   UPI Asia  |   About UPI  |   My Account
Search:
Go

Is Lady Gaga's gun bra offensive? [VIDEO]

Lady Gaga attached two plastic guns to her bra for a concert in Vancouver, Canada.
|
 
Published: Jan. 15, 2013 at 2:55 PM
By KATE STANTON, UPI.com

Lady Gaga -- no stranger to questionable wardrobe choices -- wore assault rifles on her bra during a concert in Vancouver Friday, according to the New York Post, just one day after Vice President Joe Biden's met with various groups on the gun control issue.

Gaga wore similar lingerie on the cover of Rolling Stone in 2010, but that was before the Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre reignited the debate over gun violence. Gun rights advocates have also accused Hollywood and the media for it's frequent and reckless portrayal of gun use.

PolicyMic's Tom McKay called the outfit "tasteless and inappropriate."

"It rubs salt in the wounds of pro- and anti-gun advocates, and much trashier, the wounds of a despondent and horrified community that just lost 20 of its children," McKay said.

“I think it is gun porn,” Ladd Everitt, of the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, said.

“It’s almost like she’s telling her fans, ‘The only way I can stimulate you is to show you guns and violence.’

Recommended Stories
© 2013 United Press International, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Any reproduction, republication, redistribution and/or modification of any UPI content is expressly prohibited without UPI's prior written consent.

Order reprints
Join the conversation
Most Popular Collections
'Star Trek Into Darkness' screening NBC upfronts Met Ball 2013
'Great Gatsby' premieres in New York Spire raised on top of One WTC 2013: Celebrity break ups and divorces
1 of 16
Flags-In Ceremony at Arlington National Cemetery
View Caption
Staff Sgt. Jeffrey Roskos with the 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, "The Old Guard," participates in the annual Flags-In ceremony, May 23, 2013, at Arlington National Cemetery in Arlington, Virginia. Soldiers place American flags in front of more than 260,000 gravestones in the cemetery in honor of Memorial Day. UPI/Kevin Dietsch
fark
A guy in South Dakota faces federal charges for a chicken shiat protest in Dewey County
Actual headline: "Police give patrol cars to civilians, hilarity immediately ensues"
Deaf Chinese orphan adopted by American audiologist scheduled to get new type of cochlear implant....
Zookeeper goes in to feed tiger. Succeeds
NJ Transit shuts down train line based on a sighting of a man armed with "a long barrel assault...
On this week's episode of Some People are Capable of Amazing Feats: 17-year-old homeless girl becomes...