Police Asked Madonna to Put Away Her Prop Guns, Madonna Said No
Did you know that guns are a big element of Madonna‘s current tour? If you look through photos or watch videos of her concerts, you can see her wave around her little prop pistols and machine guns. She’s that edgy.
Up until recently, we’ve all just sort of collectively rolled our eyes at Madonna and her silly stunts, but that changed this weekend. She did a show in Scotland over the weekend, and in light of the Denver shootings, officials requested that she leave the guns out of the show. Guess what she said:
Madonna has been criticised after brandishing a hand weapon and machine gun on stage in Edinburgh, just two days after the 12 people were shot dead in a cinema in Denver.
The US singer defied a warning from Lothian and Borders Police not to use the controversial props during her first-ever performance in Scotland.
Critics said the move was particularly insensitive in light of Friday morning’s massacre, the worst US mass shooting since 2009.
“Madonna has obviously developed this as part of her routine, but I think common sense should have been applied this weekend. Given the recent events in Denver and the fact that she was in Scotland – where the Dunblane massacre occurred – better judgement should have been used,” said Shabnum Mustapha, director of Amnesty International Scotland.
You know, I wouldn’t automatically call Madonna as asshole if she’d left the guns in her show. I think it’s an overdone concept, and a poor one to begin with, but if I had seen photos of her doing her thing this weekend in Scotland, I wouldn’t have thought anything of it, and I definitely wouldn’t have made any sort of connection between her shitty show and the recent shootings. But the fact that police asked her not to use the guns and she used them anyway? That makes her an asshole. That makes her a disrespectful, arrogant, douchey asshole. Ugh.
And is it just me, or has Madonna become so much more of an insufferable jerk this year?
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