Who is Dana Loesch? The NRA's chosen defender after the Florida shooting

The appearance the NRA spokeswoman at a CNN town hall with Florida shooting survivors signals a change in tactics by the gun lobby
In the days after a mass shooting, the National Rifle Association usually stays completely silent, its social media accounts on lockdown.

Even in less fraught times, the US’s leading pro-gun lobby group usually refuses to participate in most news coverage of the firearms debate, choosing instead to attack the media from a distance.

But as students who survived the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas high school in Florida last week continue to speak out publicly against the NRA’s “blood money,” the gun-rights group has announced that it will send spokeswoman Dana Loesch to participate in Wednesday’s CNN town hall conversation with Parkland shooting survivors.

The move comes as the NRA appears to be attempting to dial down attention to the speech that longtime leader Wayne LaPierre is scheduled to give at CPAC later this week. Instead it is putting Loesch in the spotlight.
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A longtime conservative talk radio host, Loesch sparked outrage last year for an NRA recruitment ad in which she railed against the left for using “their media to assassinate real news” and said NRA members needed to confront “this violence of lies with the clenched fist of truth”.

Source: Yahoo News