“Everyone is written off as a nutjob until it actually happens.”
True, but I think the thing that everyone is missing is the rage these people have toward those they disagree with. Whether a person preps or not does not effect them but they have a viceral hatred for those that do. Such hatred makes them capable of anything.
Such hatred makes them capable of ATTEMPTING anything, but it doesn't make them capable of doing what they mouth off about.
They are all hat, no cattle, all sound and fury, signifying nothing. (to quote the original Wm. Shakespear)
/johnny