Don’t make the mistake of hubris. Unless you live on a private island and are guarded by Blackwater, you’re at risk of home invasion or a sniper ambush or the like. Ponder life in Mexico, where gangs kill mayors and police chiefs (who are guarded better than you or I) every day. Kidnapping a relative (how many nieces and nephews do you have? How much do you love them, if they’re sceaming on the cell phone?)
Please, no hubris. I’m an ex-SEAL and the scenarios scare me a LOT. I don’t live behind a swept-zone surrounded by triple concertina wire and a platoon of troops. Everybody has to go shopping-—and risk a parking lot takedown by “commando criminals” (cite Argentina, Mexico) who are dressed in police or SWAT type uiniforms. Just to kidnap a relative, to torture, because an extensive google search revealed one’s foolish propensity to talk about PMs on the internet.
Old tech or new tech, torturing beloved relatives is the proven method to find buried or hidden treasure. Please don’t be so glib in dismissing the possibility of a home invasion or similar hyper crime against your family.
It sounds like somebody in Ocean City (NJ or MD) bragging at this moment about throwing a hurricane party and riding it out.
Here’s the thing. Speaking for ourselves personally the cartel, para military and the US military are not coming after us. Even if we had a bunch of gold nobody would know it. Nobody is going to kidnap our family. Thats just not the kind of folks that will seek to do us harm. It will be random crime. Gang bangers and druggies in our area. I have yet to see a gang banger at the Bulls Eye range.
As for our current reality we are living the nightmare right now. The crime here in the suburbs of Atlanta is really bad right now. The cops told us its pretty much everywhere. We have had people on our property more than once and up on our deck as recently as last week. We are way past speculation. We have been at the back door with weapons in the middle of the night. We walk our property in the dark with weapons. After awhile you do get a certain feel for it. Most people are not prepared for a real confrontation. So maybe the target practice crack was a little over the top but we are not terrified of intruders. Chances are they will not be prepared for us. Criminals like easy targets. They will usually shy away from a real fight. If the SHTF then there will just be too many of them to hold onto a house in a neighborhood.
Thats why we are settling on a place up in the mountains with no cultural diversity, lightly populated and we are already fairly ensconced in the community and we have friends who have already moved up there and are LAL.
If I had a lot of gold, first I wouldn’t tell anybody about it and second I would not hold it out of the country as when the SHTF you will never be able to take possession of it. If its in the bank they will probably steal or confiscate it. ETF’s are even a worse idea. A good safe secreted and cemented to the floor is a good idea and/or bury it or some of it in a PVC pipe in the backyard. But thats our plan maybe not for everyone. You cannot plan for every scenario that could happen. Just do what makes sense.