[ansel12]

It doesn’t have to be roving hordes, rural living has plenty of anti-social tough guys who are not locked into a rock hard code of moral absolutes, if there is no law or sheriff’s department and sophisticated forensics and crime labs, plenty of rural guys and the anti-city, anti-social types who also like the country, will become opportunists and criminals also.

Amoral, or desperate locals can tell when people aren’t home, or are outdoors or busy, walking up on a couple’s house is not exactly Green Beret stuff, pilfering and break-ins, and even murder would not be in total absence in the country if everything went to heck.

[yorkiemom]

It doesn’t have to be roving hordes, rural living has plenty of anti-social tough guys who are not locked into a rock hard code of moral absolutes, if there is no law or sheriff’s department and sophisticated forensics and crime labs, plenty of rural guys and the anti-city, anti-social types who also like the country, will become opportunists and criminals also.

True. They'll be the first to try to take away what others in the country have, even before the city-dwellers arrive. I imagine city folk will sit around for 3 or 4 days, in shock and waiting for the FEMA trucks, before they even react.

[Old Sarge]

I cannot ever forget a post on one of Kartographer's threads from back in July sometime. I wish now I'd have saved it, but it went almost word-for-word like this:

"We will kill you. We will kill you and take your stash. We have our orders, we couldn't care less. This is from an active duty military."

And no one challenged that post.