“Street thugs”? You mean the ones stupid enought to hold their handguns sideways (not using the sights)? The ones with ZERO wilderness survival skills? The ones who depend on 7-11 burritos for sustinance? Those “street thugs”? They’ll rob and pillage the inner city cesspools and the residents of such who do not posess the drive, will and skills to hit the backcountry and survive. When that gravy train dries up, they’ll dry up - those “street thugs” that are stupid enough to venture out of their comfort zone into the hills, mountains and woods, will last about as long as a snowball in Hades. Foodstamps won’t help them there.
It would behoove you to actually read the article. It was not referring to the type of people you described. It was referring to well-trained ex-military types.