Guns & Advertising [Pic]

We know that there’s a lot of discussion about the use of gun imagery and lexicon in politics but this ad near the New York office made us wonder about the responsibility of communication professionals too.

For this Jason Statham punch-em-kick-em-shoot-em-blow-em-up flick, the marketing team have found themselves using visuals and language which have become socially questionable.

Beside a pistol silhouette made from smaller gun outlines a headline reads:

“Someone has to fix the problems”