A violation of the Second Amendment might well lead to chaos by ushering in an enormous increase in the intensity and frequency of violence committed by Democrats after the election.
No doubt a leftist study ... prudence is labeled fear. LOL they so predictable.
We have a huge pantry, most of us out here do, but we don't even normally think that having our own little personal store is unusual. When the family runs out of ketchup I dont want to pay double at a local store and have no intention of making a two hour trip to get some so to keep everyone happy there is a dozen bottles in the pantry along with a couple cases of green beans, a couple of kidney beans, a couple of lima beans, a couple of...well, you get the idea. Its cheap in town and I cant drive to get it if we were to just run out especially in the winter so you need to keep a lot of everything on hand.
If youre rural then theres a good chance that someone in the family is raising stock for slaughter and hunting and fishing. All of that years processing and harvesting needs to go somewhere much of it at almost the same time so you wind up with freezers or youll run out before next year.
At that point why wouldn't you keep extra cleaning supplies and a few medical supplies on hand.
Oops, now youre a prepper. You are in England anyway. It takes a bit more effort to be considered a “prepper” in America.
So the whole federal government civil defense program, and all who participated in it during the Cold War, were "crazy or delusional"?
My wife used to think I was slightly nuts because I insisted on having cases of bottled water and some canned food on hand.
Last summer the water supply had a blue/green algae bloom which contaminated the city water with cyanotoxin. You can’t get rid of the toxin with bleach, or boiling. Some people say that an activated charcoal filter would take it out. Anyways, we had plenty of water to cover drinking and cooking for over a month. The stores sold out of water in one day. It took about 3 days for them to ramp up the supply chain and get re stocked. Note that this was in the Summer without any other natural disaster.
The wife and I just chuckled at the panic going on. On about day three she looked at me seriously and said “I see now why you always made me stock water. Thank you”. She is now fully on board with me and actively discusses rotating out old stuff, ideas for easily stored food, etc....
On her suggestion we got a Brita filter system (activated charcoal) and multiple spare filter cartridges that we use now for filtering our tap water. She bought an extra one for her office at work. I also have had some .02 micron filter systems for a couple years but they wouldn’t have worked for the cyanotoxin.
I’m NOT throwing out my supplies—collected during the Obama years!
Normal people who just want to live their own lives will not be vigilant forever. I pray that we can delay the disaster of another democrat in our White House for another four years, perhaps even more, but it will happen. The totalitarian globalists will seize power again, and they will be immeasurably worse than ever before. Be prepared.
My 76 year old sister and 72 year old best friend recently got their concealed carry. My sister got it because she no longer felt safe in her very nice home in its really nice neighborhood. Why? There have been an increasing number of break-ins by people from other neighborhoods. I would actually have to call these “diversity break-ins” as the few that have been caught do not speak English, at least not as a first language.
I asked my friend, who lives in the woods were there is little crime, because it’s just so far from “diversity” neighborhoods why he got his concealed. (He carries all the time now.) He said, “It seems the safe world we grew up in is gone and I feel the need to protect myself.”
Um, having a Plan B (and C) is common sense?
Because of the "unknown unknowns" - 9-11, Katarina, (didn't see either coming), increasingly shaky financial underpinnings, increasingly shaky societal underpinnings.
Asteroid hits, Yellowstone cauldera, plagues, nuclear exchange, etc.
Why the hell wouldn't someone have some type of Plan B?
“Journal of American Studies”. Never heard of it.
Most people are not worried about the End of Time. They are worried about THEIR government coming in and making them prisoners in their own nation.
Boy Scouts taught it: Be prepared.
Nothing wrong with storing 30 days of provisions for emergencies. It’s both prudent and Biblical. I discovered an old well on my property. I plan to bring back on line. Maybe I’ll add a sweet coconut tincture, bottle it as “South Sea Rejuvenation Miracle” and sell it to people with bald heads.
"Potential occurrences commonly worried about by preppers include possible economic depressions,
terrorist attacks, cyber-attacks, pandemics, or environmental disasters.
Furthermore, researchers say that frequent recommendations from the U.S. government on how to prepare
for potential disasters, such as when residents of certain communities are advised to stockpile water
in preparation for a hurricane or blackout, have also contributed to the rising number of doomsday preppers in the United States.
..these preppers believe that if the worse were to happen, the government’s response simply wouldn’t be adequate
and many people would be left to fend for themselves."
When even the Federal government encourages prepping for the civilian population,
since that is exactly what the government and military does on a regular rotational basis,
encourage your family and community to do the same.
Consider the recent events in Venezuela and Puerto Rico to be a 'learning experience';
when demand exceeds availability, the government, medical, and human services just shut down.
Our grandparents didn't believe in Doomsday Prepping, they called it being practical, prudent, and wise !
“According to Mills, these preppers believe that if the worse were to happen, the government’s response simply wouldn’t be adequate and many people would be left to fend for themselves.”
Maybe because that’s true. Maybe it’s because our government tells us to be prepared for AT LEAST 3 days.
Duh.
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I am sure the dozens of apocalyptic, post-apocalyptic, end-of-the-world books, comic books, movies and TV series each year have nothing to do with it.
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“Most Americans can’t seem to log online or turn on the television without being hit by a grim view of the future being reported or speculated on.”
Ah, no. Most Americans can’t believe the crap coming out of the so called mainstream media. Trust in federal government and the mom is at all time lows because they are intentionally wrong so much of the time, IOW lying.
People can see that those working in government are twisted sick people intent on causing harm to regular citizens.