Lady Gaga drops gun bra from show after being criticized for wearing costume in Vancouver concerts

Lady Gaga has dropped a controversial gun bra from her show after receiving intense criticism for wearing the costume in her Vancouver shows. The bra was slammed by critics as being insensitive so soon after the Newtown, Connecticut gun massacre in which 20 children and six adults were killed.
When the 26-year-old pop star performed Monday in Tacoma, the gun bra was gone, replaced by a regular bra, according to reports on Twitter. “@newscomauhq she took the guns & gun bra out of the show last night!!” tweeted Twitter user, Niko, who was at the concert. “She just wears a regular bra instead of the gun bra now.”
In Vancouver on Friday and Saturday, the pop star wore the controversial bra, which features two fake assault rifles extending from the front of each bra cup, while she performed the song Alejandro. The gun bra is part of the video and concert performance for Lady Gaga’s hit Alejandro; she also wore a similar costume when she posed for the cover of Rolling Stone in 2010.
The Vancouver concerts were the first in Lady Gaga’s North American leg of her Born This Way Ball tour, and her first shows since the shootings at Sandy Hook school in Connecticut last month.
Lady Gaga, who has not commented on the controversy, was criticized for wearing the gun bra by gun control groups and celebrities alike. Reality TV star Sharon Osbourne, whose daughter Kelly Osbourne has been in a public war of words with Lady Gaga on an unrelated issue, took the opportunity to add her voice to the criticism.
“Everything is guns, guns, guns,” she said about Lady Gaga’s gun bra. “This is not right, and she should be stopped. All I'm asking her to do is to stay true to her foundation, which she said (to help in making) the world to be a braver, kinder world.”
And Ladd Everitt, a spokesperson for the U.S. group Coalition to Stop Gun Violence told Britain’s The Sun that Lady Gaga’s actions were irresponsible: “What is the point of this gun porn? It’s no different than a guy who poses with an assault rifle to look tough or send out a political message.
“You’d hope Lady Gaga would have a better sense of judgment. We would ask her to consider the influence she wields over many people and to use that power responsibly.”