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“As far as guns and ammunition, I seriously doubt that one person can protect what they have if people are starving.

That may be true, but I can still take out a whole lot of starving thieves before I’m robbed. “

My thought is, if your can annoy the thieves then they will simply go to a house that has no guns!

I have a years supply of food and at least a month or two of water. Water is the most important and vulnerable resource.
I can seal off an area of my house so that a thief would have to work awfully hard to reach me. I can allow thieves to ransack the rest of my house without even knowing I’m there.

"but I can still take out a whole lot of starving thieves before I'm robbed."

Exactly...just because the odds may be stacked against you doesn't mean you shouldn't fight back with all you've got. If you don't make it, you can sure take plenty of them with you, and make their "victory" a costly one.

Also, make sure you take whatever you can off the MZBs you drop, after you've successfully defended your homestead. Grab any ammo, weapons, walkie-talkies, and anything else that could possibly used for barter goods.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

You can't protect your city, but you can (with proper planning) protect your community and your home if you are not in a heavily populated area - my definition of community being every thing you can see from your house, including your neighbors' houses.

What I mean by this is: make it a point to have already discussed the possible scenarios with your neighbors... Get them on board with a plan and have a plan! The plan should include how you plan to communicate, eat, drink, defend, and administer medical aid. Make sure you have a good satellite photo, with with street and topo overlays, of the area you intend to defend, and then look for the weaknesses - mitigate the weaknesses.

I've done this for our "community" and have enough on board so that we can handle things for a good 6 months without having to worry about a harvest or having to venture outside of our safety zone. Those within the community that didn't want to be a contributor during the planning phase will either have to join in when it happens and prove themselves with "Mucho Gusto", or they will be left to fend for themselves.

We are geographically isolated enough that we can do this... We have water and a means to purify it... Food stores... and if needed, seed stores. We have "off-grid ability to communicate around the world (and it is currently EMP shielded, as are the needed electrical vehicle components for transportation. BTW- we can run them on our self produced ethenol.) We have welding and smelting capabilities as well, and can cast our own bullets for our reloading operation. Food storage is taken care of, as is meat curing and smoking.

The only thing we might run into trouble with would be a scenario that kept us from being outside: radioactive fallout... That one could leave us vulnerable to people that aren't aware of the radioactivity and that are out scavaging to see what they can find. They might breach the perimeter after someone else has set off the primary defense charges. (We do not have any illegal items whatsoever - we just know how to make things if we have to have them.)

Just food for thought...

Regards,
Raven6

PS: We do need a good dentist... The house next door to me will probably be on the market soon if one of you city-dwelling tooth-yankers is looking for a place to go WTSHTF. I'll keep a watch on the place while you're away, but you'll have to get here quick when the balloon goes up... Otherwise, the "have-nots" might get you! :-)