Those pesky root causes keep popping up

As a recap: Root Cause: The fundamental reason for the occurrence of a problem Some news in the Washington Post Friday caught my eye with their article about suicide rates and reduction. Suicide Reduction Researchers say there’s a simple way to reduce suicides:...

New membership perk announcement!

Good stuff here, we were turned onto the folks over at CCW Safe by our lead instructor, Alessandro, and we decided to reach out to them to see if we could get something for our members- and they happily obliged with a 10% discount off of their already great prices....

Soundbites make for terrible policy

I know. We live in a world of soundbites. Particularly in the political realm. From “Lock her up” to “Zero-tolerance policy” towards undocumented immigrants, sadly the first round of Democratic debates in 2019 did nothing to improve this...

Texas gets safe storage right

We’ve seen efforts at getting folks to be responsible with their guns done in a variety of ways- a number of them being highly problematic and doing nothing to actually get the message out that locking your stuff up is a good idea, but rather criminalizing folks...

Are we about to Lose our Rights?

Over the past weeks, I’ve watched in dismay as several states have moved yet again to restrict our rights. And I get it, my position on this is unpopular with a good part of the American public, but it’s pretty disheartening to see such clear evidence that...