Ms. Magazine has launched a full scale attack on “Project 2025”—the conservative agenda for combatting what it calls the “deep state”—arguing it would be “devastating for women, families and feminists everywhere.”
The 733-word essay complains:
- Project 2025 is explicit about putting more guns in schools.
- Project 2025 would also dangerously weaken federal oversight of the gun industry
- Project 2025 promises to enact concealed carry reciprocity legislation
TGM checked about the first complaint, which claimed there were “documented cases of unintentional discharges.” The link takes readers to the story of a single incident at a school in Cambridge, Mass., involving a police officer at the school. The Ms. report also states, “The presence of guns in schools has already resulted in firearm suicides by teachers and staff,” but this link takes readers to the story of a single suicide in the parking lot of a school in Indiana by a school staff member. It doesn’t say anything about that individual participating in any armed teacher program.
So, single cases have been portrayed as multiples.
The complaint about weakening “oversight” of the firearms industry says this tenet would cripple the ability of “top law enforcement agencies to crack down on the flow of illegal weapons.” The Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act, signed by former President George W. Bush, prevents junk lawsuits designed to bankrupt American gun makers, who manufacture perfectly legal firearms. Gunmakers can still be sued for producing defective products, but they cannot be held liable for crimes committed by third parties over whom they have absolutely no control.
Lastly, law-abiding American gun owners have been demanding concealed carry reciprocity for many years. Such a bill actually passed the U.S. House, but it gathered dust and died in the Senate. Reciprocity recognizes the right to bear arms extends not just outside one’s home, but beyond the borders of someone’s state of residence.
According to the Project 2025 website, here’s what the organization’s agenda actually says:
The book offers a menu of policy suggestions to meet our country’s deepest challenges and put America back on track, including:
- Secure the border, finish building the wall, and deport illegal aliens
- De-weaponize the Federal Government by increasing accountability and oversight of the FBI and DOJ
- Unleash American energy production to reduce energy prices
- Cut the growth of government spending to reduce inflation
- Make federal bureaucrats more accountable to the democratically elected President and Congress
- Improve education by moving control and funding of education from DC bureaucrats directly to parents and state and local governments
- Ban biological males from competing in women’s sports
Project 2025 is a product of the conservative Heritage Foundation and is dependent on a victory this fall for former President Donald Trump. The Ms. article is essentially a diatribe against Trump’s re-election.
By no small coincidence, a new Rasmussen poll shows Trump ahead of Vice President Kamala Harris 48-46 percent, with remaining voters either undecided or favoring a different candidate.
It is then first poll taken since Independent Robert F. Kennedy Jr. dropped out of the race and endorsed Trump. Kennedy had been getting 4 percent of the national vote.
Rasmussen noted, “Trump’s lead is due to his eight-point advantage among independents, as he and Harris each get the same level of support from their own party, Trump with 82% of the Republican vote and Harris getting 82% of Democrats. Among voters not affiliated with either major party, however, Trump gets 49% to Harris’s 41%.”
