[appleseed]

Seems like even Hollyweird, Columbia-educated, hipster, Dobie Gillis types are starting to see the need to be prepared to fend for ones self and family.

I had to exerpt the article and further on, the description of this dude standing in the gun shop next to people like me was funny.

[appleseed]

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This line from the original stood out a bit:

Everything is politically strange. Half of what I'm doing is completely right-wing stuff and half is really left-wing stuff," acknowledges Strauss, leaving Gun World after paying $919 for his new shotgun.

Are Remington 870 Wingmasters really selling for almost a thousand bucks? That sounds a little steep.

[Bryanw92]

$919 for an 870?? Wow. Ya gotta love California!

The article doesn’t answer the most important question: can you kill a guy that appears threatening, but hasn’t made a move yet? Because, if the SHTF, waiting for the other guy to initiate hostilities will mean that he gets that nice shotgun you paid $919 for.

I think the flaw in his GOOD (Get out of Dodge) plan is that when the US economy collapses, the rest of the world goes with us. Rich American refugees will either become King or be dinner.

[dennisw]

Kind of metrosexual survivalist. He has written other books

[dennisw]

One review in Amazon said the book was full of Bush bashing....

[mad_as_he$$]

One theory about the collapse is that 0 will send everyone out of the cities to the country. Ala Cambodia’s killing fields. Those who believe the country is safe may be in for a rude surprise.

[Squantos]

If they would only open their eyes to political survival now........:o)

Self Reliance, Independence, Freedom, Security and mere day to day physical and fiscal survival is Conservatism IMO.

[PzLdr]

$919 for an 870? This guy needs training in survival shopping and tracking sharpies.

[oldenuff2no]

I find this interesting. The folks who live in the red counties of Ca and in the red states of this nation don’t want people like him around when times are tough. We stay prepared all the time and are not interested in the city people running our way when their way of life fails.
Stay in the city and take your chances. You made that bed and it is yours forever.
It is total arrogance to believe that three firearms and a motorcycle constitute the ability to live and sustain oneself. Where do I start when replying to such ignorance? Anyone who has lived off the land knows that it takes all year to reap a good harvest. That bounty will not be shared with someone who just shows up on a low mileage motorcycle with a gun in their hands. Money will be useless at that point in time.
These folks better start storing food and water and make their stand right where they are. They won’t be able to move that much food and water out of the cities and they dam well aren’t welcome around here without it.
Tough spot they are going to be in.
I view the socialist entitlement attitude of the beehive city mentality as being the direct cause of the downfall of our nation. I think most of the “red” areas of our nation agree with that assessment. It is very much an “us versus them” mentality. In the end we will have the food, water, and energy sources. Why should we share what we need to survive with those who caused all the problems?

[familyop]

People like Strauss are welcome, IMO, as long as they’re humble enough and willing to learn more about conservative living. As for their doomsday fears, a few years in a rural or frontier area tends to calm them down.

[eXe]

I look at it like this.. the more guys like him out there.. the better for those of us who are into prepping hardcore. At least I know this guy wont be at my door a week after an event asking for food.. lol

At least he is doing something. I find that the very few friends who know about me, are starting to ask lots and lots of questions of me these days.

[SunkenCiv]

"A slim intellectual in silver jewelry and designer jeans, he doesn't appear to be the kind of person who would stash food in a forest or plot an escape from his Los Angeles-area home using fire trails and a motorcycle he barely knows how to ride. Yet that's precisely what Strauss has learned to do in the past three years in an effort to prepare himself should society collapse. It's a journey he not only chronicles in his new book, 'Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life,' but continues to pursue."

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Emergency: This Book Will Save Your Life by Neil Strauss

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