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.
“I think if we completely changed the government overnight it’s too late for the turn-around you are hoping for.”
And that is the tests of the end game starting. I, too, believe we are there, that even if 100% of the elected officials in the country agreed with us, there is no stopping this train wreck. It is simply going to need to play out now.
lol. Yep. Never mess with a man that knows how to hunt wild boar in flipflops and RealTree.
My back property is right at the Catalina mountains. It is not nearly as hot here. I also have 2 generators, if needed.
I also have a large vegetable garden, and we have our own water supply.
Well, folks lived there before electricity. It will weed out the weaklings.
“Field dress a gangbanger”. oh, man, the mental images! lol.
The hottest it gets here is about 100, and that is only for a few weeks. Also, it is dry heat, so it is not unbearable at all.
Spooky, indeed.
What about 401 accounts? People will take a big hit if they dissolve these.
And ya done good. Patrick Henry was a little more pithy, though: "Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains or slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God!"
Closets are full.
LOL!
There probably is some of that.
< looks in closet>
Sometimes I wish I’d missed that one.
The deer for food ,that’s work. The gangbanger, or an obama supporter, for fun, that is recreation.
As they say in PHX, yeah, it’s a dry heat. Just like an oven.
Nobody ever said it better, before or since, than Patrick Henry. Nobody. Ever.
I’m more of a heads-on-pikes kind of guy.
I originally moved to Scottsdale from California......100 degrees at midnight.....uh uh ;-)
Ping.
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