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Survival Shop Reports Jump In Sales To People Preparing For “Possible Collapse”
CBS St. Louis KMOX ^
| November 23, 2011 4:00 AM
| Kevin Killeen
Posted on 11/23/2011 1:17:17 PM PST by caper gal 1
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To: TheWriterTX
And if it’s never needed for shtf, you’ve got yourself a pantry of things you normally eat anyway. Nothing wrong with that.
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posted on
11/24/2011 11:17:50 AM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: Mad Dawgg
Dear Mad:
Look at the run on banks during the 1930's. One news story prompted a lot of people to withdraw their money from the banks. Banks typically don't keep tons of cash on hand, and when they could no longer dole it out, that lead to another news story which resulted in widespread panic. The run on banks swept across the country like a wave and forced many of them to close.
Even in the relatively "slow" news world of the 1930's, waves of panic did occur.
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posted on
11/24/2011 3:28:20 PM PST
by
TheWriterTX
(Rock you like a Herman Cain 2012)
To: caper gal 1
Death or Ru Ru.That was my Med class motto in 1987-88.
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posted on
11/24/2011 4:55:23 PM PST
by
Sarajevo
(Is it true that cannibals don't eat clowns because they taste funny?)
To: Kartographer
Awwww. . . Too much Thanksgiving red wine bringing back some memories! That is how my husband and I met. I was supposed to shoot in a high power match at Camp Perry and had never shot an AR-15. My husband's friend (I coached his son on our junior rifle team) convinced me to come to his farm and shoot one to see how I liked it. The man who would be my husband was there, and we found out later that our friend planned that, and he brought his AK. Not only was he pretty turned on by my shooting skills, but my dad scared the crap out of him when he caught the brass in his hands when it was ejected! LOL! I have a very handsome 3 year old and extremely beautiful 3 month old all because of high power rifles!
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posted on
11/24/2011 5:16:12 PM PST
by
goodwithagun
(My gun has killed fewer people than Ted Kennedy's car.)
To: Sarajevo
You just gave me my good laugh for the day!
To: TheWriterTX
"Even in the relatively "slow" news world of the 1930's, waves of panic did occur." Yes, BUT after the fact.
However we are talking about PREPARING for a collapse well ahead of time.
Info in the 30's was too compartmentalized. Financiers and the like knew of the coming disaster then but John Q. Public knew only bits and pieces.
Today with the Internet anyone who knows how to do a Google search can find out several orders of magnitude more info in a few minutes than even the POTUS with a full time staff could manage to gather in a month back in the 30's.
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posted on
11/24/2011 7:12:32 PM PST
by
Mad Dawgg
(If you're going to deny my 1st Amendment rights then I must proceed to the 2nd one...)
To: Mad Dawgg
Oh Man...that made me literally LOL...I agree completely
To: Iron Munro
They are about half an hour down the road, in Bardstown, directly across the street from "My Old Kentucky Home". I was over last week, looking for some 1911 magazines and had to stop and drool all over the Mosin-Nagants they had on sale (all matching numbers and beautiful inside and out).
I used to sell Nagants at a department store back in the mid-90's, so I was able to help the guys at Keene's (Ky Gun Co) answer some other customers' questions. I ended up selling twelve for them and they gave me a free magazine to show their appreciation.
They have some very nice firearms in the store, including some that require federal tax stamps to own.
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posted on
11/24/2011 8:15:14 PM PST
by
Stonewall Jackson
(Democrats: "You will never find a more wretched hive of scum and villainy.")
To: Stonewall Jackson
Interesting.
Thanks for the post.
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posted on
11/24/2011 10:02:57 PM PST
by
Iron Munro
(Ben Raines For President)
To: Secret Agent Man
> Better off just making a pantry and filling it with long-term goods you normally eat <
That’s what I’ve been doing for a while now. Each payday I buy ‘extra’ to stash away. Don’t forget liquid detergent and soap.
Each payday also adds a box of ammo to the stores.
It adds up much faster than you think. I also buy a large can or two of ‘group’ supplies. Most of my friends have small children. I could not stand buy and watch my friends kids starve. I just couldn’t do it.
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posted on
11/25/2011 4:39:15 AM PST
by
appalachian_dweller
(Live each day as if it's your last. It might be.)
To: sport
>> Right now they are trying to keep the sheep anestised until the 2012 election. Sometime after that, all hell will break loose. <<
That’s my read of situation as well.
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posted on
11/25/2011 4:53:07 AM PST
by
appalachian_dweller
(Live each day as if it's your last. It might be.)
To: caper gal 1
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posted on
11/25/2011 4:58:02 AM PST
by
SIDENET
("If that's your best, your best won't do." -Dee Snider)
To: appalachian_dweller
>> Right now they are trying to keep the sheep anestised until the 2012 election. Sometime after that, all hell will break loose. << Thats my read of situation as well.My concern is what "they" will do with those who refuse to fall asleep.
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posted on
11/25/2011 5:14:45 AM PST
by
papertyger
(What has islam ever accomplished that treacherous, opportunistic, brutality couldn't do on its own?)
To: Jacquerie
ont worry. It cant happen here. Honest. Really . . . right?The people participating in the above are like the people who got out in front of Nazi Germany - The Sheeple stayed - and PAID.
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posted on
11/25/2011 9:51:45 AM PST
by
maine-iac7
(ALWAYS WATCH THE OTHER HAND)
To: Kartographer
A prudent man sees danger and takes refuge, but the simple keep going and suffer for it. NIV Proverbs 22:3Stealing that for my new tag line
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posted on
11/25/2011 9:58:19 AM PST
by
maine-iac7
(ALWAYS WATCH THE OTHER HAND)
To: Kartographer
had to take out a couple words - it won’t all fit for a tag line :O)
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posted on
11/25/2011 10:02:58 AM PST
by
maine-iac7
(A prudent man foreseeth the evil,... but the simple pass on, and are punished. Prov 23:3 KJV)
To: appalachian_dweller
You’re better off trying to get them to start their own pantries, even from a basic (buy food now while it’s cheaper, it’s gone up a lot the last year) economic reason.
You can’t pack away enough for them. If you give them all the stuff you set aside for them, they’ll keep coming back to you for what you saved up for your family, because you’ll still have way more left.
Being friends also means not taking food out of your mouths, especially when you had the foresight to plan ahead and they didn’t. It’s also not fair to your family, which is why you were stocking up in the first place. Ultimately each meal out of your pantry you give to others is one taken out of your wife’s or childrens’ mouths. It’s one thing if you have some kind of supply you can count on, but if there’s real doubt how long supplies will be disrupted, it’s reality.
Get them to be considered for their own welfare. Best thing you can do. That way they will be less of a burden on you, and possibly even a blessing to you or others. Also come at it from the freedom angle (no govt camps just for food), and from the barter/wealth angle.
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posted on
11/25/2011 2:02:28 PM PST
by
Secret Agent Man
(I'd like to tell you, but then I'd have to kill you.)
To: papertyger
I reserve my .308 endeavors to a fat barreled bolt action. That stuff is too damn heavy to sprinkle around the landscape like an assault rifle to my mind. You do NOT get to run the co-ax in the tank. After we burn up the first 10,000 rounds we change the barrel and bolt and reload the tac tray woth 10K more.
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posted on
11/26/2011 12:14:26 PM PST
by
archy
(I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!)
To: Sarajevo; Squantos; Travis McGee
OTOH, you can stick around and battle zombies with the rest of usCLACK!
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posted on
11/26/2011 12:20:47 PM PST
by
archy
(I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!)
To: TheWriterTX
Look at the run on banks during the 1930's. One news story prompted a lot of people to withdraw their money from the banks. Times were tough in Grovers Mill in 1938.
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posted on
11/26/2011 12:26:33 PM PST
by
archy
(I'd give my right arm to be ambidextrous!)
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