Could you hold off a Swat Team?
Why do you think that local police and sheriff depts have, systematically for years, been given free military equipment and vehicles - many, even tanks - and extra funds to maintain SWAT Teams? It won't be our 'military' for door to door. It will be SWATS.
And if you know history, and are watching the news, you'll know that there will be plenty of people who would, enthusiastically, don the helmets and grab the big guns and play Nazi against their neighbors.
The prudent thing is to not have storage goods where they can be easily found. Maybe a little stash they can find and think they cleaned you out, but down through the ages, wise people know how to secure survival goods.
Don’t be silly, of course I couldn’t hold back a swat team, I wouldn’t even try.
But there is a big dam difference between a swat team raiding one place a day and the same swat team raiding fifty or one hundred places a day.
And I am sure you know history. Look at what happened at Ruby Ridge. Look at what happened at Waco.
It’s not like the swat teams simply pulled up, pointed their guns at a few folks, grabbed all the food guns and ammo they could and pulled away fifteen minutes later. Wham, bam, thank you ma’am style.
Both were long, protracted events.
Multiply that by 1000. Hell, multiply it by 500,000
See what I mean?
Ain’t gonna happen that they go door to door seizing stuff.
The logistics simply don’t exist.
Don’t have to hold off a Swat team.
All I have to do is take a significant divot out of one member.
If the next guy down the road takes a significant divot out of another member, and the third guy does the same, eventually they’re going to run out of enthusiasm.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn wrote of this.