BTW, rural areas are also very easy targets...Few or no neighbors, few witnesses, few or no prying eyes or cameras...People leave their doors unlocked, everyone is trusting, etc...All the things criminals like.
In my rural area, and many in the western and I guess southern parts of the US (I’m in the west), many, many people are armed, for one thing. I hear people target practicing all the time. A nice, soothing sound. The criminal types around here are known and will not be able to take control. Many people here have gardens and of course there are hundreds of thousands, actually millions, of acres of mountains and national forests all over the place. There is basically one road through the valley and people have definitely considered how to block it off if need be.
We also have a strong Contsitutionalist County Sheriff who is right now attending a large meeting of Sheriffs in Las Vegas to formulate how to protect citizens from the illegal encroachment of the fedgov; and he has personally stood up against such encroachment in our county.
Depending on jobs in populated areas is all very well when there are jobs, EBT cars and all utilities and all the stores are open. Take some of those away, and the picture changes.
The Amazon? surely you jest.
No, you sound very paranoid for someone living in the middle of nowhere. Best of luck to ya.
And really, think about heading to the Amazon or Alaska. I hear it really isolated and rural in those places. You should be safe there.
“.Few or no neighbors, few witnesses, few or no prying eyes or cameras...People leave their doors unlocked, everyone is trusting, etc...All the things criminals like.”
Not sure which ‘rural area’ he’s talking about.
Here in Hillbilly Heaven, everybody knows everybody else and also knows who everybody else knows so ‘suspicious strangers’ don’t slip through often.
The doors may or may not be unlocked but you have to run a gauntlet of ‘yard and porch dogs’ to find out.
As far as ‘no witnesses’, well, hell, we just consider that a bonafide plus...;D
The few times I *have* seen strangers wandering around the neighbors’ property, I “just happened to be going out right then” with a 30.30 slung over my shoulder and stopped to chat with them, real neighborly-like.
They all took off and never came back.
None of the neighbors knew the people based on the description I gave, later.
Don’t know what those folks were ‘up to’ but they didn’t succeed at it.
We take “neighborhood watch” to a whole new level.
Since Gov. O’Malice gave us a great castle doctrine we don’t see ‘strangers’ at all, any more.
The funniest incident was when a bunch of granola punks thought they’d ignore all the no trespassing signs on dad’s mountain and “go hiking” up there.
When they tried to get back out, hubby had pulled the Yukon across the lane, blocking their exit and was waiting with a shotgun for them.
My dad came down and went ballistic on them about the “possible consequences of trespassing” and by the time he was done they were crying and begging to go home.
That was pretty funny.