Hey bro,
My main concern is that if my neighbors don’t have arms, how can I trust that they will know how to use them? If they haven’t had the forethought to arm themselves, this may present a problem.
I hate to say it but we need to all get a feel for how are neighbors are. When the economy collapses, will they be a help or a burden? I’d love to help all who come to me but I can’t feed and arm everyone. If they can’t do it for themselves, you and I cannot save them.
But, given the above, we must try. However, we must encourage our friends and neighbors now, rather when it’s too late. I know which of my neighbors I can stand shoulder to shoulder with. I know which cannot be trusted with information or arms.
God bless!
Those are all great and valid points. After the balloon goes up, it will be a question of least worst choices, not best.
I hate to say it but we need to all get a feel for how are neighbors are. When the economy collapses, will they be a help or a burden? I’d love to help all who come to me but I can’t feed and arm everyone. If they can’t do it for themselves, you and I cannot save them.
But, given the above, we must try. However, we must encourage our friends and neighbors now, rather when it’s too late. I know which of my neighbors I can stand shoulder to shoulder with. I know which cannot be trusted with information or arms.
Thinking about it, there would be some people who do not presently own firearms either by choice or due to current legal restrictions, who night otherwise be a good person to be armed.
Someone who fought in war and has changed their life around so that guns no longer fit into the picture / their lifestyle and/or who consider themselves done with guns and killing since they did enough of it fighting in war in the past, for instance.
I also seem to recall that with the passage of the Lautenberg amendment Domestic Violence Offender Gun Ban some people who had plead guilty to misdemeanor domestic violence suddenly lost their right to legally own firearms forever.
Also I seem to think that there were (or was a plan to) have returning soldiers who got a PTSD (Post Traumatic Stress Disorder) diagnosis tagged as being too mentally unstable to legally own guns.
So assuming that some people don't have firearms because they currently think that having guns and ammo around is more trouble than they are worth, their spouse is against having guns in the house, they don't want guns in the house because they have children, or they lost everything including their guns in a divorce or bankruptcy, or they lost the legal right to own firearms due to some rule which really should no longer apply to them... Some of these people might be a good bet to be armed and on your side if things really go South in a big way.