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Posted on 05/14/2010 8:42:21 PM PDT by Travis McGee
(This is from the middle, but go to the link and read it all.)
Get those "sudden stop" plans in place - NOW. If you're in a big city you're in big trouble. Find friends or relatives that aren't and see what you can do about a place to go where you have a reasonable shot at avoiding the worst of this. Look, all-out civil unrest (or worse) is a low-probability event but if you get trapped in a big city and the worst comes that city will go feral within hours and become a free-fire zone. What's worse, many of these cities are openly hostile to citizens having and using effective self-defense; the bad guys don't give a damn about laws - that's why they're called criminals. There really are bogey men in the world - they're called gangs folks, and they would love the opportunity that a breakdown that would come with such an event. In such a circumstance the only way to win the game is not to play. This is all about where you are, not what you have.
If you haven't acquired the means of lawful self-defense in whatever form or fashion you deem prudent at this point, the time to do so was yesterday. You need time and practice as you need competence - the biggest component of self-defense is the thing found between your ears, not the thing in your hand(s)! I know I've harped on this before but if you think you can go buy a gun when things get dicey and be "protected", having invested nothing in practice and/or training you are very likely to have that weapon taken from you and then be shot with your own gun. That's a crappy way to die; if you're unwilling or unable for whatever reason (including legal restrictions where you live) to acquire the means of defense then being concerned about the above (where you're going to go, how you're going to get there, and what you've got for supplies) becomes even more important.
Thank you for the explanation.
But somehow you kinda hope you have a Captain Sully at the wheel...
We need to find a competant Captain Sully...
It is with heavy heart that I would pass up my alma matter on the way to our “compound”...
Instead, we have the anti-sully at the controls.
Exactly right.
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You bet.
With our agricultural surpluses, I don't expect America to starve in ANY Great Depression (although, in less-agricultural regions of the world, it could get ugly). However, if you actually want to be able to BUY foodstuffs (as opposed to having to barter for them), you're going to want to own some currency with some intrinsic value. That's where silver comes in.
JMHO.
Hey, I agree. I even feature junk silver dimes being used in my third novel.
Cool, I’ll check out your website!
How “stand alone” are each of the books? I like trilogies which are “self-dependent” as well as those where each individual book stands alone, either style works for me; but enjoying a good economics read as I sometimes do, I think I might like to order the 3rd book first. How well does it read “by itself”? Or would I be better advised to start with Book 1?
Great post, CodeToad. I’m a Krav Maga instructor and teach a lot of women’s self-defense classes. My classes feature something much like what you described, but I’m stealing some of the things that I’ve missed - thanks!
We talk about women giving themselves permission to fight back. Hard to believe, but it’s a necessary step. I’m going to take it up a notch by using your imagery to get them more in touch with their inner bitch!
“I’m more of a heads-on-pikes kind of guy.
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Me, too, except maybe I like to put the spikes at their camp...while they sleep.
I wrote them to stand alone, but they would be a bit better if read in order. Only two characters return to the second book, and each has a different protagonist.
Thanks for the compliments!
“inner bitch!” Lol. I was once told I had a “hair trigger bitch switch”. For a guy, I’ll take that. I have one.
Shame you don't sell through Amazon, I have a gift card I need to blow. Heh.
Sounds good. Bring on the deflation!
To elaborate on my sound bite: The consumer economy is an economic corollary of corporatist/socialist government. Deflation will be the undoing of the consumer economy, but also the federal behemoth.
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