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.
“Thats why we are settling on a place up in the mountains with no cultural diversity, lightly populated”
It’s amazing how many people I know, who live in big cities, are doing this. However, they all have beaucoup inherited bucks to do this.
What do poor conservatives do?
I agree 110% about moving to a place in the mountains with no diversity. The sooner the better! Location will be critical to getting through the coming social storms.
The advice about storing gold out of the country was, I think, really intended for folks in the “investor” class who are worried about being wiped out if all their assets are located in the USA. For them to recover their gold stored overseas, will be part of their relocating overseas. They are planting parachutes and liferafts around the world “just in case.”
We just don’t know what the coming storm will look like, but a French or Russian revolution twist is not out of the question, where “the evil rich” are the new “Kulak class,” to be rooted out and destroyed. That’s why Faber thinks it’s wise to stash some gold overseas....if you own enough assets to have “extra” to plant abroad.
I don’t think a French or Russian revolution would be successful here, but that’s beside the point. It would mean a horrible civil war at the very least. As Trotsky said about the Russian Civil War, “You may not be interested in war, but war is very interested in you.”