If it is news to you that in a SHTF situation the greatest threat to you and your family are going to be armed bands of people - what did you think it WAS going to be?
“When you have made evil the means of survival, do not expect men to remain good. Do not expect them to stay moral and lose their lives for the purpose of becoming the fodder of the immoral. Do not expect them to produce, when production is punished and looting rewarded."
>> “If it is news to you that in a SHTF situation the greatest threat to you and your family are going to be armed bands of people” <<
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Not armed bands of ‘people,’ Military and LEOs.
LOL! Very True!
I'm about 60 posts thru and there's a whole lot of naiveté on this thread.
You know who's going to do well in a SHTF situation? Young, single males. Fact is, our wives and children are liabilities. The young, single male is going to have the advantage of mobility and independence. He has nothing to lose and nobody depending on him. He only has to scavenge for himself. He can move quickly with little more than a rifle and a backpack.
People here claiming "Oh, we'll just band together in happy little groups and defend ourselves" will be in for a big surprise when they find themselves outnumbered by roving bands of young males who shoot the menfolk first, do Very Bad Things to their wives and daughters, take what they want and then quickly leave.