“Well, most of us regardless of age are not going to wait around for the bad guys to attack us.”
Where, exactly are you going to go, and with whom, and to what end?
Besides setting up a perimeter initially, and occasional recon a bit further out, I doubt you’re going to accomplish much by wading out into the unknown looking for trouble.
What’s your long-term strategy for winning SHTF, besides merely surviving, and starting slowly again?
You gonna be marching with a band of brothers to go reclaim D.C. ? You gonna be fighting your way to some oil refinery to get the fuel flowing again, or take over some power plant and start restoring the grid?
Just go sit in your rocker, gramps, and keep imagining you are the only badass to have ever lived. Your cowardly kind are a well known quantity. You question everyone else but it is your kind that are as much a threat as those that assault us as you try to demotivate others.