Stockpiling useful things isn’t hoarding. Anyone not prepared is deemed to suffer.
Why would you conclude that the people you love would be the ones coming to steal your supplies? If they are there to take what you have the forethought to save up and in turn starve you and your family, then they ain’t your loved ones.
This load of weak-kneed compassionate conservatism is what got us in this mess!
You think so? I didn’t say the people would come and rob you, I said they’d ASK for your supplies. So what are you going to do?
As for the forethought, some people simply will never have the resources to even stock up.
You think weak-knee’d compassion is the problem and for every week knee, I can show you a hard heart that thinks only of itself.
Stockpiling useful things isn’t hoarding.
Buying 50,000 primers when it prevents others from practicing their shooting skills is hoarding.
Buying stuff when it is readily available to anybody isn't "hoarding". How much you buy with your own money in that situation should be of no concern to anyone else, especially clueless reporters and government. I like to "stockpile" frozen White Castles, mainly so I don't have to run out and get them so often. Is that a threat to anyone?
In some sort of emergency, having a supply of items on hand means I'm not "out there" scavenging with everyone else, or standing in line at some government distribution point. I'm not competing for what are now scarce resources.
Having a little extra on hand also allows me the grace of Christian charity. I have something to give to good people whose only "crime" was stupidity (I have relatives like that). If you're coming by with evil intent, I can spare a bullet, but only one per customer.