TEOTWAWKI - firearm considerations
This can be a fun exercise in contingency planning, even if it is pretty unlikely. But in a culture that encourages a year's supply of food, contingency planning is not unusual or strange.
I don't have any remarkable or specific advice to give. But I have made a couple of observations.
1) The idea that you will be able to hunt for game in order to eat is ludicrous, no matter how much ammunition you have. I have been camping in Texas and Oklahoma over 50 nights in the past almost-3 years. I have seen one deer, one skunk. I have seen rabbits two or three times. I don't ever recall seeing a squirrel. Have never seen a pig. I have seen more wildlife in the actual confines of Dallas proper, where I have seen innumerable squirrels, seen coyotes, even seen a bobcat. The point is that game density is low, that the game that is available will be completely gone within weeks, in the context of millions of hungry people.
2) No matter your arsenal, the only safety is in your tribe. Look at every anarchical situation in recent history. How do people survive? They band together in tribes--Iraq, Afghanistan. How do people survive in prisons? Gangs.
Luckily, I belong to a pretty good tribe. Zion is fierce. Zion is strong. Do not go against Zion.
Of course that means people like SU are completely screwed. Oh well.
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