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Somehow, I think the country boys will do better than the city boys, if it comes to an urban-rural rupture.

The only recourse for the fedgov will be Stalinist agrarian mandates. Provide the food, or else.

The difference of course, is that the Russian Kulaks didn’t have millions of scoped deer rifles.

Somehow, I think the country boys will do better than the city boys, if it comes to an urban-rural rupture.

The only recourse for the fedgov will be Stalinist agrarian mandates. Provide the food, or else.

The difference of course, is that the Russian Kulaks didn’t have millions of scoped deer rifles.

I tend to agree with you. We live in a fairly rural place now, but where we bought land just 20 minutes north is where our good friends are. Between here and there everybody stores food, cans food, keeps and raises livestock and poultry, hunts, target practices...as a course of habit pretty much. I contrast this with people I know in town who live week to week between trips to Kroger. It's these people who really suffered during the last big ice storm we had back around 2003. They ran out of food in "about" 72 hours. The roads didn't clear for a week. Power wasn't back for 10 days in most places. They were a miserable bunch at the end of a week!

It's a different mindset in rural communities. But there's a facet nobody has thought of, and I'm a little reluctant to bring it up. But everybody thinks they've predicted the outcome of an urban-rural rupture (as you've aptly called it!). One side thinks the boys from the hood are going to terrorize the farmer, rape his daughter, eat his cow, take his food, and go from home to home out in places like our neck of the woods, and that will just be the way it is. Others think that we'll shoot them on sight and that will just be the way it is.

But since this entire discussion revolves around observations of a "cold" war in progress which could go "hot", escalation of force and tenets of warfare APPLY and this is something most people don't think about.... but SOME do.

What IF none of the predictable things happen? What if the country boys take prisoners and then interrogate them CORRECTLY...use that information in the larger scope of gathering information...and then (after doing the Three S's to the prisoner) go for a little visit in town at 0200 where the zombie came from and burn his entire apartment block to the ground?

I'm not suggesting ANYTHING. I'm just saying that there ARE people running around who don't think of things like what we're watching digress in terms like most others. The outcome could of course go against the rural person as well... for a time. Being a rural person and having the contrast, I tend to lean in the direction of rural people being a dangerous bunch when they organize and coordinate...especially if a bunch of them are former DoD with certain "skills". I THINK you can relate to what I'm trying to explain though. These things are why I don't believe the left can comprehend what's likely to happen if they continue. Yes, it's going to be unpredictable, but potentially inconceivably ugly as well.

The goobermint better damn well feed their zombies before they wander out and get up to no good out in the country! ...and they better keep them fed really, really well! There's a lot of room out here!...and a lot of people with firearms and shovels who shoot, shovel, and shut up, even when the zombies stay away!

And YES...scoped rifles certainly do make a difference!

“The difference of course, is that the Russian Kulaks didn’t have millions of scoped deer rifles”

LOL.........And plenty of ammo.