“Yeah. Me and a dozen of my buddies. Armed. You don’t need food. You need guns. The people with the guns get the food. The people hunkered in their homes get robbed or burned to the ground.”
A bizarre scenario like that would be long, long after the casual survivors were out of food, in your Road Warrior scenario the only people that would still have stored food stocks would be the very serious survivalists, and I have yet to meet one of those whose favorite topic isn’t the possibility of getting to deal with the marauding gangs of trash.
I would love to see what mental image you have of yourself leading a group of urban males with short attention spans that think that survivalists are unarmed sheep with tons of all the life giving goods but for some odd reason not at the same time better prepared than most everyone for the violent elements that might arise in a post apocalyptic scenario.
The man with the food also has the guns, stockpiled ammunition, and he is healthy, fit, and will have had his pick of who is in his clan by the time starving looters get desperate enough to take him on.
Thank you. (You get it.)
Yeah but he is in one place. That fortress idea doesn’t work forever. Somehow, all those people have to get fed and making 10,000 people dig a latrine for you isn’t going to work.
No matter how safe you think you are in your castle, you are not. You are at the mercy of the mob. All of the survivalist literature(see Frugal Squirrel) is based on the premise that any intruding mobs are small in nature. They all realize that a strong concerted effort is going to succeed.
The key to survival is making sure your neighbors have enough food so they will be fine. If you can’t ensure that, the next best thing is to stay mobile and hidden.
Thank you, ansell12. Hopefully this type of situation will never happen and I will not have to eliminate these scum-suckers one by one.