It’s better to be a mouse than to be a lion, in this situation — I will try very hard to get away from the crowds, and then to keep an extremely low profile... And to fight only when absolutely necessary....
Having said that, I know that, within limits, there is strength in numbers, and I’m more likely to combine resources and cooperate with those I encounter, rather than fight for dominance.<<<
Wise thinking, can’t argue with that.
The simple fact is, there is not a perfect answer to survival, one does what is needed to survive, be it stealing your food for my family or killing me for my food.
It is not the experienced woodsmen like you that worry me.
It is the fool that thinks like the clintons and etc, they will be the real danger, as they will not be prepared, after all this is all the fault of President Bush and they do not even listen to Dr. Bill when he warns them of what will happen, if an attack comes.
On the terror thread, I just posted a link for the new tests that N. Korea did last night.
and will have more on there later.
But the left will tell you there is no war, we do not need to know who is spying on us, etc.
They are the danger to you and I, if they are in the area.
” It is the fool that thinks like the clintons and etc, they will be the real danger, as they will not be prepared, after all this is all the fault of President Bush and they do not even listen to Dr. Bill when he warns them of what will happen, if an attack comes. “
I know I sound like a broken record here, but I have to come back to the lessons learned from the Katrina experience....
The unspoken big lesson for us in this discussion is that the vast majority of the sheeple has been so conditioned to dependency that, in an emergency situation, the instinct is to ‘herd up’ and mill about squawling for the all-powerful gummint to come save them (geraldo crying, all the way)....
When/if the gummint ‘help’ turns out to be not forthcoming, they will start feeding off of each other, and the bloodletting will be horrendous.
For the most part, the criminal element will stay with the easy pickin’s of the herd, as criminals are, by definition, parasites, and will stay with the host. (I can also envision scenarios where the ‘gangs’ you referred to in some of your earlier posts will fill the vacuum and become the dominant social organizing force in urban areas)
There were, however, a few people in New Orleans that did, indeed, take it upon themselves to find a way to get out on their own (these are the ones that did *not* have their pictures on the ‘news’ stories), and they are the ones that will be least likely to pose a threat.
The upshot of all this is that, should The Day arrive, I’m much more concerned about the vicissitudes of bad luck and natural hazards than I am about the predations of my fellow man... ;~)