{"id":76289,"date":"2022-01-19T14:23:35","date_gmt":"2022-01-19T20:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=76289"},"modified":"2022-01-19T14:23:35","modified_gmt":"2022-01-19T20:23:35","slug":"76289","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=76289","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Can the DC Project be the 2A counter to Moms Demand Action?<\/a><\/p>\n

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We\u2019ve all become familiar with the gun control lobby\u2019s group of red-shirted women demanding more infringements on our right to bear arms, but Moms Demand Action isn\u2019t the only game in town when it comes to a female-centered movement dealing with gun ownership. Since 2016, the DC Project has been attracting a growing number of women who\u00a0support\u00a0<\/em>the Second Amendment, and at this year\u2019s SHOT Show, the group\u2019s founder Dianna Mueller hosted a press event to help spread the word about the organization and its efforts around the country.<\/p>\n

Mueller wants the organization to become a counter to Moms Demand Action, and one of the most visible ways the group is doing so is by adopting the color teal to serve as a visual sign of support for the Second Amendment, just as the red shirts of MDA are an easy way for lawmakers to see gun control activists in attendance at legislative hearings or in statehouse galleries. But Mueller and the other DC Project leaders aren\u2019t just looking for ways to visually signal their pro-2A attitudes. They\u2019re looking to have an impact on legislative policies around the nation. In fact, as Mueller told the audience at the DC Project presser on Tuesday, their goal is nothing less than to \u201csave the country\u201d through activism and education.<\/p>\n

One of the things that\u2019s most impressive about what the DC Project has been able to accomplish in just five years of existence is that the women have done this largely on their own. Sure, the group has some corporate and individual sponsors, but there\u2019s no deep-pocketed billionaire bankrolling the organization as we\u2019ve seen with Michael Bloomberg and Moms Demand Action. This is a true grassroots effort, and it\u2019s so great to see how the organization has grown over the past five years.<\/p>\n

In 2016, the DC Project\u2019s first goal was to bring 50 women, one from every state, to Washington, D.C. to simply demonstrate to lawmakers that yes, pro-Second Amendment women weren\u2019t mythical creatures. From there, the project has snowballed to the point that there are now more than 40 state-level directors for the DC Project leading the pushback against gun control legislation and pressing legislators to approve pro-2A bills, while DC Project members have been called to testify on Capitol Hill on an increasingly frequent basis.<\/p>\n

Mueller pointed to the passage of Missouri\u2019s Second Amendment Preservation Act, as well as the defeat of a bad bill in the Democrat-controlled legislature in Nevada last year as two examples of the state-level work that the DC Project is engaged in, and also discussed the\u00a0legislative battles<\/a>\u00a0over multiple gun control bills that they\u2019ll be engaged in this year in Washington State, where lawmakers are once again looking to ban so-called assault weapons and high capacity magazines while further eroding the state\u2019s firearm preemption law and allowing localities and counties to impose their own restrictions on the right to carry during public meetings, permitted events, and in government-owned buildings.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0DC Project<\/a>\u00a0is still a pretty new endeavor, all things considered, but they\u2019re already doing great work and have big plans for the immediate future. I\u2019d encourage every woman who supports the Second Amendment to become a part of this organization and get involved in what the DC Project is doing. As their sign says, gun rights are women\u2019s rights, and it\u2019s critically important for more of us to be politically engaged if we want to see those rights safe and secure.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Can the DC Project be the 2A counter to Moms Demand Action? We\u2019ve all become familiar with the gun control lobby\u2019s group of red-shirted women demanding more infringements on our right to bear arms, but Moms Demand Action isn\u2019t the only game in town when it comes to a female-centered movement dealing with gun ownership. … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76289"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76289\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":76290,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76289\/revisions\/76290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}