National Rifle Association Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre at NRA press conference on Newtown school shooting (© ZUMA/Rex Features)

PR experts agree: The NRA press conference was a disaster

12/23/2012

The professional verdict on the NRA’s bizarre Friday press conference is in. And it ain’t pretty. Gene Grabowski, a former PR man for gun manufacturers, called the NRA statement delivered by Wayne LaPierre "mean-spirited, cold and misguided." He said he felt that overall "it was worse than if the NRA had not spoken at all." Jonathan Bernstein, president of a Los Angeles-based crisis management firm, was "not even sure [the NRA] have listened to their own members," accusing them of acting "too aggressively." [Source]

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