{"id":169650,"date":"2022-10-19T10:50:09","date_gmt":"2022-10-19T14:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/?p=169650"},"modified":"2022-10-19T10:50:09","modified_gmt":"2023-09-08T10:46:25","slug":"dark-money-funding-new-anti-2a-group-to-convince-teens-guns-make-us-less-safe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/dark-money-funding-new-anti-2a-group-to-convince-teens-guns-make-us-less-safe\/","title":{"rendered":"Dark Money Funding New Anti-2A Group to Convince Teens \u2018Guns Make Us Less Safe\u2019\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Group Aims To Change Young People&#039;s Minds About Guns\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mh7pq_MYjf0?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>A new gun-control organization has emerged; it&#8217;s funded by dark money from progressive donors, and its sole mission is to indoctrinate teens and young adults that \u201cguns make us less safe.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The name of this new group is called <a href=\"https:\/\/www.projectunloaded.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dark-money-funding-new-anti-2a-group-to-convince-teens-guns-make-us-less-safe\" title=\"Dark Money Funding New Anti-2A Group to Convince Teens \u2018Guns Make Us Less Safe\u2019\u00a0\">Project Unloaded<\/a>. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThrough creative and cultural campaigns, Project Unloaded establishes safe spaces for open conversations about guns and provides accurate information about gun safety to inspire the next generation to choose on their own terms not to own a gun,\u201d the website reads.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The New Venture Fund is one of the main sponsors of Project Unloaded, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/liberal-dark-money-network-quietly-launches-gun-group-create-narrative-guns-make-us-less-safe\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dark-money-funding-new-anti-2a-group-to-convince-teens-guns-make-us-less-safe\" title=\"Dark Money Funding New Anti-2A Group to Convince Teens \u2018Guns Make Us Less Safe\u2019\u00a0\"><em>Fox News Digital<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The New Venture Fund is a nonprofit that acts as fiscal sponsor to dozens of progressive organizations which in turn do not have to file with the IRS because they invoke the New Venture Fund\u2019s tax-exempt status.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/liberal-dark-money-network-quietly-launches-gun-group-create-narrative-guns-make-us-less-safe\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dark-money-funding-new-anti-2a-group-to-convince-teens-guns-make-us-less-safe\" title=\"Dark Money Funding New Anti-2A Group to Convince Teens \u2018Guns Make Us Less Safe\u2019\u00a0\"><em>Fox News Digital<\/em><\/a> goes into greater detail:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>The New Venture Fund is one of four nonprofits managed by the Washington, D.C.-based Arabella Advisors consulting firm that recently expanded its operations. Arabella also manages the Sixteen Thirty, Windward and Hopewell funds, which contain progressive groups below them. The four Arabella-controlled nonprofits raised $1.6 billion in 2020, positioning themselves as the country&#8217;s most extensive dark money network.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Project Unloaded has also received $500,000 from the Joyce Foundation and $50,000 from the MacArthur Foundation. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MacArthur Grant reads as follows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\"><p>Project Unloaded, fiscally sponsored by the New Venture Fund, is a new effort whose mission is to create a new cultural narrative that guns make the country less safe.&nbsp; It approaches gun safety through narrative and culture change, with young people as the agents of that change. With a focus on teens and young adults, Project Unloaded communicates engaging, accessible information about the risks around gun use, via digital media platforms and peer influencers. Its goals are to permeate culture with the central message that guns make us less safe; shift individual knowledge, attitudes and behaviors during the formative teen years; and build a community of like-minded peers to amplify this message.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Earlier this year, Project Unloaded launched its SNUG campaign, which stands for Safer Not Using Guns.&nbsp; It hired social media influencers with large followings to spread the message. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">SEE ALSO: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/new-york-post-calls-out-mayor-adams-for-blaming-guns-for-subway-murders\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dark-money-funding-new-anti-2a-group-to-convince-teens-guns-make-us-less-safe\" title=\"Dark Money Funding New Anti-2A Group to Convince Teens \u2018Guns Make Us Less Safe\u2019\u00a0\">New York Post Calls out Mayor Adams for Blaming Guns for Subway Murders<\/a><\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>It\u2019s not clear what, if any, effect the SNUG campaign has had.&nbsp; Gun sales are still at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/nssf-may-2022-gun-sales-were-3rd-strongest-on-record\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dark-money-funding-new-anti-2a-group-to-convince-teens-guns-make-us-less-safe\" title=\"Dark Money Funding New Anti-2A Group to Convince Teens \u2018Guns Make Us Less Safe\u2019\u00a0\">near-record levels<\/a> and, as <em>CNN<\/em> recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gunsamerica.com\/digest\/watch-cnn-reports-on-why-more-liberal-leaning-women-are-buying-guns\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dark-money-funding-new-anti-2a-group-to-convince-teens-guns-make-us-less-safe\" title=\"Dark Money Funding New Anti-2A Group to Convince Teens \u2018Guns Make Us Less Safe\u2019\u00a0\">reported<\/a>, more people of color are choosing to exercise their 2A rights, including many liberal-leaning women! &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Back in May, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msnbc.com\/know-your-value\/out-of-office\/uvalde-texas-school-shooting-project-unloaded-has-plan-change-young-n1295759\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dark-money-funding-new-anti-2a-group-to-convince-teens-guns-make-us-less-safe\" title=\"Dark Money Funding New Anti-2A Group to Convince Teens \u2018Guns Make Us Less Safe\u2019\u00a0\"><em>MSNBC<\/em><\/a> interviewed Nina Vinik, the founder and executive director of Project Unloaded.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Vinik spoke about the organization\u2019s nonpartisan approach to the issue. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cThe polarized nature of this debate is really kind of turning off a lot of young people. They don&#8217;t want to be forced to pick a side. We&#8217;re not asking them to pick a side. We&#8217;re asking them to get the facts and to make a decision that&#8217;s in the best interests of their health and safety,\u201d&nbsp; Vinik told <em>MSNBC\u2019s<\/em> Daniela Pierre-Bravo.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Unfortunately for Project Unloaded their mission statement doesn\u2019t hold up under the slightest bit of scrutiny. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To draw an analogy, guns make us less safe much in the same way swimming pools make us less safe.&nbsp; For the inexperienced, both pose a danger (drowning is the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.stopdrowningnow.org\/blog\/?gclid=CjwKCAjwwL6aBhBlEiwADycBIJROR1REmroz6SoYzlJnQf23EiJQxyyowrKRTVEEeTBsJSwrlfeKUhoCbssQAvD_BwE\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\" campaign=\"dark-money-funding-new-anti-2a-group-to-convince-teens-guns-make-us-less-safe\" title=\"Dark Money Funding New Anti-2A Group to Convince Teens \u2018Guns Make Us Less Safe\u2019\u00a0\">leading cause of accidental death<\/a> among children of all ages). &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the answer isn\u2019t to confiscate all guns and to fill in every backyard pool.&nbsp; The answer is firearms training and swimming lessons. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn to swim.&nbsp; Learn to shoot.&nbsp; Become a capable individual in the face of danger.&nbsp; Because one can spend one\u2019s whole life hoping one won\u2019t need either skill or one can prepare to do both competently should one ever need to. &nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>And this is where Project Unloaded\u2019s logic falls apart.&nbsp; It\u2019s trying to convince young people that in a world full of potentially dangerous pools and lakes and oceans your best option is to never learn to swim.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-heading\">**<a href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/\" campaign=\"BuySellGA_Register\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"clickTracking\">Buy and Sell on GunsAmerica!<\/a>***<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new gun-control organization has emerged, funded by dark money from progressive donors, and dedicated to the mission of convincing teens and young adults that \u201cguns make us less safe.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":34,"featured_media":169651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_specdata_upc":"","_specdata_placement":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,240],"tags":[132,469,607],"featured":[],"hunt365":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-169650","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-current-events","8":"category-this-week","9":"tag-buzz","10":"tag-gun-control","11":"tag-news"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Dark Money Funding New Anti-2A Group to Convince Teens \u2018Guns Make Us Less Safe\u2019\u00a0<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"A new gun-control organization has emerged, dedicated to the mission of convincing teens and young adults that \u201cguns make us less safe.\u201d\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/dark-money-funding-new-anti-2a-group-to-convince-teens-guns-make-us-less-safe\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Dark Money Funding New Anti-2A Group to Convince Teens \u2018Guns Make Us Less Safe\u2019\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"A new gun-control organization has emerged, funded by dark money from progressive donors, and dedicated to the mission of convincing teens and young adults that \u201cguns make us less safe.\u201d\u00a0\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/dark-money-funding-new-anti-2a-group-to-convince-teens-guns-make-us-less-safe\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Gun Reviews and News | GunsAmerica.com\/Digest\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/gunsamerica\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2022-10-19T14:50:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2023-09-08T10:46:25+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/gunsamerica.com\/digest\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ProjectUnloaded.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1200\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"691\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"S.H. 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