There's a lesson to be learned here. If you're involved in a natural disaster you have to take the initiative to protect the right to defend your property. If that means hiding your weapons from the authorities to keep them then so be it. It's a shame it has to come to that.
. If that means hiding your weapons from the authorities to keep them then so be it.
that's everybody's first reaction, of course. But what complicates this is the madatory evacuation. They come to your house, say you have to come with them and you can't bring your guns. What are you supposed to do? Sure, you can hide them in your home, but then you get shipped off to some shelter in a different city with no protection and probably no means to buy more. A lot of good your guns do you hundreds of miles away in a condemned city.
Yeah, the lesson is that the military and police WILL follow orders to confiscate guns. I guess we shouldn't be that surprised since this is the historical norm. America was always the abberation.
If you're involved in a natural disaster you have to take the initiative to protect the right to defend your property
You can't survive going solely defensive. Eventually, you have to go on offense in any SHTF situation or you will be surrounded and trapped.
If that means hiding your weapons from the authorities to keep them then so be it
If a people are to remain Free, eventually they will have to stand up and say "No, you thugs! You can't have my guns". That's what happened at Lexington when 77 patriots were outnumbered 10:1. They had the guts to line up and tell the bastards "no".
Alternatively, people can hide their guns. That's what the Poles did. Things didn't work out so well for them.
(On a side note, you made reference to the "authorities" being the state. In a Free society, the "authorities" are We the People. Not the state, nor agents of the state.)
Gonna be mighty hard to shoot looters, rapists, etc, with guns hidden well enough that the Government agents can't find them.