I would rather fight defending my preparations to survive, which is already something that I planned for when preparing, than to merely die, because I didn’t prepare.
Even pioneer families had to fight to defend their goods and shelter from roaming looter packs.
put one of these in your back yard for all to see.. haul empty boxes in like your stocking it up.
Then when the SHTF bug out to the real hide out :)
spendy decoy yes, but it’ll probably buy you the time you need to escape.