People that Won’t Survive SHTF

The Modern Survivalist ^ | June 11, 2013 | Fernando Aguirre

[VRW Conspirator]

I could not help but think of the "Obamaphone" woman when I read this.

[humblegunner]

I see parents letting they kids wonder away

They kids be wonder like that? Fo' shizzle?

[MaxMax]

BFL. Interesting read.

[Mouton]

We employ locks and deadbolts all the time along with a security system and no where in my home am I more than 10 feet from a ready to go airborn home defense system aka shotgun or pistol.

[Vermont Lt]

Oh no, they will survive a while. They have had to survive in a world where everything that is not locked behind doors, chained to the floor, and wrapped with wire is stolen. The Obamaphone types (be they black, white, brown or yellow) know how to get what they want—when they need to.

They are used to violence and fighting. I haven’t lived that way for a long time. My kids have never lived that way.

No, you will lose a lot more in the suburbs than the inner city.

The inner city will go due to violence, but they will march into the suburbs and get what they want. Until someone shoots them.

[Fred911]

My home is a very dangerous place for anyone who wishes me harm.

[Vigilanteman]

Dumb people don't bother me. Dumb people who vote do.

I'm amazed at the number of late model, expensive vehicles which I see around here still sporting Obama bumper stickers.

Most of the rest of us drive basic transportation and have long since either removed our stickers for the other guy or replaced them with clever stickers saying something like "Don't Blame Me. I voted for the American."

[The Working Man]

And I just saw the first person drive by my place in over a week. Sometimes it’s month’s especially in the winter.

Location, location, Location. I’m pretty sure that less than fifty people in the whole county know I’m here.

[Ax]

I was stationed in Buenos Aires ingvthe late 1980s. We lived in a very nice neighborhhod in what I thought was a a pretty safe 'house. It was bordered on three sides by other nice houses. There was an eight foot wall in the back yard. I use to hang my sweaty running stuf on a clothesline just outside the kitchen. Because I knew the neighbors behind had a noisy German Shepherd, I got pretty lax in locking the door. Unbeknownst to me, the neighbors behind had moved, taking my protection with them. Then one May morning, I came downstairs and noticed a change in usual light patterns. I looked around, and found that we had been burgled. The thieves took my VHS, my daughter's flute and my brand new Bass Weejins, the bastards. Scary to realize that we were burgled while sleeping. I reported this to the Security Officer at the Embassy who dispatched his police liaison officer to deal with the BA Police. They came to investigate in November.

The traffic in BA is horrendous, but it doesn't hold a candle to the Shah's Teheran or Tokyo. Still, BA was the best place in the world to eat world class beef or consume excellent Andean wine.

[qaz123]

Two good pieces on what may happen when SHTF:

http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2012/09/11/what-i-saw-at-the-coup/

http://westernrifleshooters.wordpress.com/2012/09/03/bracken-when-the-music-stops-how-americas-cities-may-explode-in-violence/

One is kind of a essay, the other fictional.

[hal ogen]

NSA and nobama know.

[TADSLOS]

Take a lookie.

[The Working Man]

Yep, There’s no escaping from the Eye of Sauron I’m Afraid.

[Vigilanteman]

The inner city will go due to violence, but they will march into the suburbs and get what they want. Until someone shoots them.

I noticed you said "Until" not "Unless." Conservative working class suburbs like mine will shoot them a lot sooner than the ritzy liberal suburbs surrounding bigger cities like Philadelphia and New York.

[The Working Man]

When I was a kid living overseas in an Asian Country, the house we lived in had a nice high concrete wall with broken glass cemented into the top of it. All of the windows had bars on them even the Garage had a barred cage door. You might have thought we lived in a prison and therefore was ‘safe’.

Ha! The thieves could break in, strip you bare in less than five minutes if they thought you had something they wanted. I learned there that one of the best defense was total obscurity, drive a dirty looking vehicle, wear plain looking clothes, try to blend in, even if that worked only from a distance. It could mean a big difference, if you were being profiled in preparation for... whatever.

[expat2]

taking for granted that some good Samaritan will find their kid and return it to them

I once knew a guy who swore his parents would take him to Coney Island and immediately lose him, so that they could enjoy their day without him until they picked him up at the lost-child shelter when it was time to go home.

[beebuster2000]

People here, most of them have never been mugged in their life, most have never seen the wrong end of a gun barrel. They’ve never suffered a home invasion or even know friends of family that have gone through that. Its all so distant and unreal to them.

what a BS article. the guy makes it sound like its a problem you have never been mugged. stupid.

[VRW Conspirator]

There are many parallels with the USA and Argentina. But, I keep coming back to one idea. American is not Argentina. Yes, when the SHTF, there will be more crime and more havoc in America. But the backbone of America is not full of socialists. FWIW

[TADSLOS]

Was his name Rodney Dangerfield?

[expat2]

but they will march into the suburbs and get what they want

I'm not so sure. I lived in the suburbs of Detroit during the 1967 Detroit riots and my neighbors were getting their guns out, expecting the rioting minorities to come marching up Woodward Avenue. But they never got far from their hood.