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What I added to the Wayne LaPierre page:

Following the event, several in the media criticized LaPierre's statements, including the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette editorial board and The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg. Conservatives also criticized LaPierre's remarks, including Republican Party strategist and pollster Frank Luntz, pundit Ann Coulter, and Rupert Murdoch.

What I added to the NRA page:

Following the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, news organizations and commentators criticized statements made by LaPierre during an NRA press conference. In an editorial, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette called LaPierre's press conference "nonsense," writing that "LaPierre speaks for gun makers, not gun owners." LaPierre's remarks were also criticized in an interview on Meet the Press, and by The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg, who characterized the NRA's strategy as an attempt to "gin up paranoia among gun owners."

From Republicans
Republicans and conservatives have also criticized the National Rifle Association, including Republican Party strategist and pollster Frank Luntz, pundit Ann Coulter, and Republican Governor of New Jersey Chris Christie. In January 2013, Christie called an online video created by the NRA "reprehensible." The video, titled "NRA: Protection For Obama's Kids, Gun-Free Zones For Ours?" criticized U.S. President Barack Obama's call for legislation that would further control the sale of guns in the United States. The video called Obama an "elitist" and a "hypocrite" for being "skeptical about putting armed security in our schools while his kids are protected by armed guards in their school." About the ad, Christie said "I think it demeans [the National Rifle Association] and it makes them less of a valid, trusted source of information on the real issues that confront this debate." On January 17, the Washington Post fact-checked the NRA's claims, and a spokesperson for the school said "Sidwell Friends security officers do not carry guns."

NRA page criticism rewrite

Criticism
The NRA is criticized by groups advocating for gun control such as Americans for Gun Safety, Brady Campaign, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence, and Million Mom March. Some newspaper editorial boards like the New York Times, Washington Post, Los Angeles Times, USA Today, and the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette have also criticized the NRA's positions. Following the 2012 Sandy Hook Elementary School shooting, commentators criticized statements made by NRA CEO and Executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre during an NRA press conference.

Politicians in the U.S. Republican Party and well-known Conservatives have also criticized the National Rifle Association. After LaPierre published a letter that labeled agents of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF), "jack-booted government thugs," former U.S. President George H. W. Bush resigned his life membership to the organization. The NRA later apologized for the letter's language. After the Sandy Hook shooting, New Jersey Governor Chris Christie called an online video created by the NRA "reprehensible" and said that it "demeans" the organization. Jim Baker, a senior lobbyist for the organization, later characterized the video as "not particularly helpful" and "ill-advised."

From other gun rights organizations
The NRA has been criticized by other gun rights groups for doing too little to get existing restrictions repealed. Organizations such as Gun Owners of America (GOA) and Jews for the Preservation of Firearms Ownership (JFPO) have at times disagreed with NRA for what they perceive as its willingness to compromise on legislation that would restrict access to firearms.

The JPFO has also criticized the NRA's political strategy on several occasions, opposing what it views as a counterproductive focus on Capitol Hill lobbying, as well as for not explicitly making a connection between gun control measures introduced in the United States and those implemented by totalitarian regimes and Nazis in pre-World War II Germany.