Why are you giving up before the struggle even starts?
Far from giving up, I'm just looking forward. If the bad guys think they will ransack me and mine, they will be piled high in the front yard, but what about a week from then? Another month from then? A year from then?
Our founders had the foresight to form militia's, but today that's a bad word or put off on the Nat Guard. What I'm saying is just having some water and ammo may not get us very far if we want the US to survive a dictatorship. Every man for himself will most likely end with just a bunch of dead men. If it weren't so, Cuba would be free, Venezuela would be free, ect, ect.
Just as an example, picture New Orleans after Katrina. What if the government WASN'T the law enforcer, but the law breaker. One of the first things they did was illegally confiscate weapons from law abiding citizens. What if it went far beyond that? Who would stand against the tyrants? There should be some sort of LOCAL militia plan so we DON"T NEED FEDERAL help. We just always talk about stocking up on ammo and guns every 4 or 8 years, but have NO plan. After IKE, our county judge closed the highways coming and going into Tyler county. We were angry at first, but I'm sure it stopped the rubberneckers, the looters, and the people looking to take our FEMA water and food. Several counties had people driving from place to place collecting free ice, water and MRE's that were needed at the time. Soon after, MRE's started to appear in the local papers for sale.