Posted on 11/13/2015 2:05:45 PM PST by w1n1
My first real exposure to the world of prepping came in 2008, when I became a new father and we moved to San Francisco, an earthquake zone. A lot of people in the Bay Area keep stockpiles of food and water on-hand for when The Big One hits, and since my wife was super nervous about earthquakes and I'm a former Boy Scout, we picked up a few cases of MREs and a water barrel.
Later, I added double-barreled coach gun for defensive purposes, making it my first time to live with a gun in the house since I left home for college at 17. But after that I called it a day. As far as I was concerned, we were ready for an earthquake, and that was that.
I didn't take things much further for a few years. I didn't even own anything that qualifies as a "survival knife" until 2012. I had dipped my toe in the waters of prepping, and I started to read more about it online. Prepping has two peculiar aspects that I found completely compelling: 1) it involves shopping for and acquiring Really Cool Gear, and 2) it has a community that longs for a world where we're no longer compelled to work jobs we hate so that we can buy Really Cool Gear that we don't need. In other words, prepping is hyper-consumerist in practice and anti-consumerist in outlook (sort of in the way that war is frequently justified by the desire for peace). Both aspects appealed to me, especially the gear part.
But this isn't a treatise on prepping. Rather, it's about why I don't prep for The End Of The World As We Know It, TSHTF, the apocalypse, the collapse, or whatever else you want to call it. Read the rest of the story here.
Alex is one of the guys I will take stuff from when the SHFT. He is an idiot.
Stealing is not a conservative value.
Alex is another mo-ron determined to make the term prepper into an epithet.
I didn’t read the rest of the article as I can pretty much guess what it is about.
I wish I could afford to buy more supplies. I will be OK with water but in the Summer my house is just not built for heat. Now my parents old house was very comfortable in the warmer months. They don’t build them like that any more.
He's armed, what if he kills you first?
Wouldn't it be better to just prepare yourself?
Ditto.
Or it could be cheap insurance for not watching your kids starve or a zombie raping your wife with a knife to your throat...
Yep, live prepared and be prepared to protect your own.
Leave others alone.
I am prepared.
Survival is.
I’ll be right beside you taking his stuff from his dead corpse...or corps’ according to an idiot Kenyan
/johnny
It doesn’t sound like he was a boy scout. Or, wasn’t very good at it. You don’t have to be a “doomsday” prepper to be prepared. Water and extra food are the minimum to be prepared for any emergency. A gun with sufficient ammo is also good as well as basic medical supplies. But, I agree with the rest, HE IS A MORON.
His death, not mine. He will starve or be a victim long before I get to him.
Ping
Well said.
/johnny
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