Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadAsk anyone about their number one goal when it comes to preparedness, and the answer is almost always the same: protecting family comes first. But getting everyone else in your household on board can sometimes feel impossible. You want to prepare the people you care about for the future, but you often run into doubts, resistance, and the classic eye roll. Many families suffer from normalcy bias. They quietly assume that tomorrow will look exactly like today. Even when you point out the bumps in the road, they simply do not tune in to…

The Second Amendment Foundation and Firearms Policy Coalition notched a big win for the Second Amendment rights of young adults in a case called Reese v. ATF, but the federal judge in Louisiana who concluded that the federal law banning licensed sales of handguns and handgun ammunition to law-abiding 18-to-20-year-old adults violates the Second Amendment only granted relief to a very narrow subset of that age group; only those members of the plaintiff organizations who were members when the judge issued his ruling, and only those living within the geographic borders of the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals.  …

The June 22 crash occurred during a training exercise and is being investigated. Four U.S. Coast Guard crew members have been declared safe following a helicopter crash. Authorities said in a press release that the Coast Guard MH-60 Jayhawk helicopter aircrew from Coast Guard Air Station Sitka crashed Monday during a training flight with four people aboard near Harbor Mountain in Sitka, Alaska. Watch standers at the Arctic District command center received the initial report of the crash at approximately 10:07 a.m. through the activation of the aircrew’s personal locator beacon. Sitka Fire and Rescue arrived on scene at approximately…

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When a tornado touches down, and the sirens begin to wail, adrenaline kicks in. For many of us, our path to safety is clear: get to the shelter and hunker down. But for the members of our families with difficulty getting around, or acting on their own—children, those with disabilities, and the elderly—that path isn’t always so straightforward. Speed and mobility are usually luxuries during an emergency. Cognitive challenges can make it difficult to process warnings and unfolding events. It’s the limitations of ourselves and those whom we care about that require a different level of preparedness. It requires us…