A fellow Freeper recommended to me the other day some Swiss-made rifles that I'm planning to acquire. They are long range, and high accuracy, although they shoot a harder-to-find caliber. The rifles themselves sell used for about $200, which is why I intend to add them to my rapidly-growing collection.
If I was on 100 acres a couple of those would let me rest much more comfortably at night.
If it came down to just firepower I could probably invade Cuba now but I just don’t know if I could kill a hungry man unless he was directly trying to kill me or my family.
Looting for food to stay alive is something anyone would do, especially with a family. A man raiding my chicken coop unarmed... that would be a really tough call for me even if I needed those chickens myself.
Call me soft, but I know if I did that mans face would haunt my dreams until I took my last breath, especially if a couple of months later things started coming back to “normal”.