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The NRA’s Domestic Arms Race
© Josh Sager – October 2013 If the NRA has clear messaging on anything, it is their belief that the “only thing which stops a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.” In virtually every recent gun...
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Fear, Guns, and Racism
© Josh Sager – November 2013 In November 2013, the peer-reviewed scientific journal Plos One published a study which correlates symbolic racism and gun ownership. The authors of the study—Kerry...
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How Guns Create Aggression and Kill People
© Josh Sager December 2013 Debates over increasing gun control in the United States often devolve into vitriolic shouting matches, where one side considers guns to be dangerous weapons and the other...
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Study Proves that Lax Gun Laws Increase Murder Rates
© Josh Sager – February 2014 The United States is currently suffering from a gun murder epidemic that kills and maims thousands of Americans every year. This epidemic is unique in the developed world,...
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School Stabbing Gives Perspective on Mass Violence, Knives and Guns
© Josh Sager – April 2014 On the morning of April 9th, just after school started, a student at the Franklin Regional Senior High School in Murrysville, Pennsylvania, began a mass-stabbing attack that...
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The Bundy Ranch Stand-Off: Free Riders, Armed Extremists and Federal Agents
© Josh Sager – April 2014 For the past 20 years, a Nevadan rancher named Cliven Bundy has been grazing his cattle on federal land while refusing to pay any fees to the Bureau of Land Management....
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Gun Extremists: Deaf, Blind and Uncaring to the Thousands of Gun Victims in...
© Josh Sager – June 2014 The United States is suffering an epidemic of gun violence that sets us apart from the rest of the developed world. Put simply, the United States experiences a per capita gun...
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Responsible Gun Owners Need to Repudiate the NRA
© Josh Sager – June 2014 Over the past several decades, the NRA has positioned itself as the champion of the 2nd Amendment and defender of the rights of every gun owner—at least, that is what they...
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The Purge Anarchy: Social Commentary on the NRA, Austerity and Class Warfare
© Josh Sager – July 2014 The Purge: Anarchy is a hyper-violent action movie that doubles as a deceptively brilliant piece of social/political commentary, targeting the extreme right wing and the gun...
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Police Shoot Black Man with Toy Gun, Give Perfect Example of White Privilege...
© Josh Sager – August 2014 Last year, I wrote an article titled “White Privilege and the 2nd Amendment,” where I described the racial disparities inherent to the perception of armed individuals. In...
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The Silence of the NRA on the Bryant Heyward Police Shooting is Deafening
© Josh Sager – May 2015 On May 7th, South Carolina police shot a 26-year old black man named Bryant Heyward in the neck outside of his own home—while he survived, he is now permanently paralyzed from...
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Terrorist Kills 50 in Shooting Rampage at Orlando Nightclub, Extremism a Real...
© Josh Sager – June 2016 Today, America experienced the worst mass shooting in its history and the highest casualty terrorist attack since the September 11th attacks. Current reports indicate that 50...
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