I want to be right with God but I'm only human...I don't have it in me to be a happy martyr...nor do I want to watch my family be martyrs....
I want to rage against the machine and all that....
I do think people who think they'll do everything for themselves are fool hearty....best security is to form solid groups of like minded people, devoted for the survival of the group....
Good to hear on your radio...I’ve just run into so much junk out there that I question just about anything with moving parts...but come to think of it, didn’t the military use them in the past? And they can have value where batteries may not be practical (such as if you’re on foot) or even available. But for most of us with a stash, batteries are still likely to do very well.
To me the only good option is an extended family. Short of that it’s just different degrees of bad, with a group still being better than alone, but when the pressure is on, it’s very likely people in a group will butt heads - but it still beats trying to protect a house with one or two people when gangs of Amish are roaming LaHood.