Hopefully you have started putting back food and cloths. Maybe the odd coin or 2 in the piggy bank. Your 72 hour bags are prepared and loaded next to the closet door. You have a bug back bag in your trunk. This just in case the extreme happens and you need to make it home. Your set up. You have been working at this for sometime now. Your to the point where you know your preps will never be done. But if disaster hit right now you would have it covered. You know who's job it is to contact the kids. The school is on lock down but you have already told you teens sneak out and get to the south end under the bleachers and you would meet them there. You wont trust there lives to some government bureaucrat. So every one is monitoring their radios and you finally make it home. What ever this problem is, its keeping people in lock down confinement for a week. Your neighbors are going hungry. They have eaten the last of there pancakes with no syrup yesterday. The kids are hungry. They're bored. They cant go outside to play. Power is off so no video games or computers. Evening are worse, its dark and except for a few candles and maybe a lantern with a oil wick it remains dark. They'll be out of light in a few more days. Then what happens?
Mr Neighbor sees you have a stronger light in the evening and can even hear the muffled thrum of your generator in the garage keeping your battery banks charged and the freezer and TV working. Ms Neighbor comes over for some food to beg for her children. NOW its crunch time. You need to make a decision how to handle this. And of course a lot of factors come into play. Like what exactly is going on and how long will it last? Your reactions can depend somewhat on these answers.
We have decided to try and talk friends and neighbors into collecting their own food and extras. The less people come to my door the less I need to feed or turn away. Of course we wont turn away family and friends. I would never turn away a child. But there could be some people that would want to take what is your. Take it by any means necessary. Can you stop them? Do you have the means. I'm not talking about a gun or knife( knife = nasty business ) I mean do you have the mindset to survive, to defend your stuff, even to the point of extreme aggression. If needed could you kill to defend your child, your husband your wife. Having a firearm will make you dangerous to all concerned. Knowing how to us that arm will make you lethal to the right people. Get your permits to carry and practice. Practice dry firing 1000's of rounds in the house. Practice retention, practice clearing your home. ALL WITH AN EMPTY GUN. Then load it up at the range and shoot. If your allowed to draw and shoot, do it.
Cheryl and myself decided we have to feed even those of our family that is poo pooing the idea of getting prepared. That will be a big drain on our limited resources. But in our mind it is the right thing to do. But we will defend our property against thievery.
Just some more to ponder.
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