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.
Good points, I’m mainly talking about people who believe guns are bad then suddenly see the light after it’s too late and expect us to hand them a gun and all will be fine.
There are lots of reasons NOT to arm some neighbors. My only point is that in order to have the OPTION later on to arm some level-headed but unarmed neighbors, you should buy the inexpensive “extra” guns now.
When TSHTF it will be too late, and your “option” will expire.
That would be me, though just the legal restrictions. NYC government doesn't need to know if I own anything that goes bang.