I think you wrote a similar post in a thread last week. Might've been you, maybe someone else. But it's the same message.
The line "wait for you in the tree line." stuck on my mind. I was also watching some lousy apocalypse movie. There was a dad with a daughter. The daughter believed the dad was a good guy. But the dad would go "hunting"...and shoot strangers from a distance with a scoped rifle. Then he would rummage thru their belongs, take what he wanted and return to camp.
What I came to realize is, you're exactly right. Doesn't matter if you're in your "safe house", trying to navigate across terrain or with a lot of friends. Somebody with a rifle can take you out.
We considered a house we saw on Zillow. It was big, brick, on ten acres, with a very wide swath of cleared land all around the house. I see now, that would not have been a safe place. (Somebody else got it first.)
Thank you for waking me up to the possibility of "He’ll grab a rifle, and wait for you in the tree line.".
I suppose the only truly safe places in the event of a nuclear apocalypse would be on a large deserted island or way back in the wilderness (either would make for a good movie).
But that would also mean no more blood pressure medicine, no more craft beer, and no more online poker to pass the time. So I guess I’d be in deep trouble.