THey ough to shoot the stupid bastard. Or at least charge him with manslaughter.
Stupid bastard killed a young girl with negligence and stupidity.
A muxxleloader is no less a firearm than any other rifle.
Remember the four rules.
Why do we prep? Stockpile food, tools, a means to protect them (and us) from others who might wish to take them? Learn skills to make do without modern conveniences (like electricity) and the skills to protect what we have?
I figure it is insurance…and time.
I spend a little over $5 a week to stockpile food and materials which will give me a little bit of breathing room should the society in which I live go tits-up. Insurance against a time when the normal grocery stores full of food might have their just-in-time deliveries interrupted for a while…or for good. When the electricity which makes my life so easy for me stops doing so. When the natural gas which keeps me warm and which makes it so easy to cook food and gives me hot water for showering stops flowing.When your ,municipal water supply doesn’t.
Five dollars a week is all I spend. Seriously. An average of $5.00. I buy canned vegetables when it is a real bargain, and I store those cans in milk crates that I get for free. Rice and beans are also good items to find on sale and which store well, especially in a 5 gallon bucket with a few desiccant packs to keep it dry. $250 a year, more or less. Not much figured weekly though. Most of us spend more than that wastefully. A few less sodas, or one less Latte, or taking a sandwich rather than ordering from Arby’s for lunch once a week. But I can store a lot of food for that $5.00 a week.
But besides a bit of peace of mind, what am I really accomplishing? It takes a LOT of food to feed 10 people for a year (to pick a number). That is nearly 11,000 meals……that is 7,000 pounds of rice (or an equivalent amount of beans, or about 6000 cans of vegetables, or 4500 cans of Dinty Moore or Spaghettios. That’s a lot of space and a lot of weight. That assumes, of course, that you eat exclusively from your storage food. And realistically, unless you have resources that most of us do not, you cannot store an infinite amount of food, due to cost considerations if not space issues. That 7000 pounds of rice? Realistically that is a little more than 2 pallets of rice…or one of rice and one of beans. Few of us have enough space to store that much. 3 pallets of cans. I don’t have that much storage space, unless I clean out the garage….
But you CAN store a surprising number of meals with a little bit of judicious adjustments and some smart thinking. Put a layer or two of cans in the bottom of your closets…Cover with a blanket or towel. Put a board across the tops….You have used your space wisely. Same with under your bed. You can store a lot of calories under a bed. Not enough to last forever, but a lot…..maybe a shelf in the basement (if you have a basement). But with some thinking and ingenuity you can find a place for a few dozen cans/ a few pounds of rice. (a milk crate holds 32 cans, more or less)…
What you are really buying with your $5 a week is to have TIME. Time to adjust your lifestyle. Time to plant a few seeds to have a garden and have the plants bear. Time to figure out what to do, how to live BEFORE you starve. Time to deal with the new conditions you may find and experience. Time to figure out how things will change, and what will work and what won’t. Time to learn. Time to adjust. Breathing space, as it were.
Likely, you are a resourceful person. But no one knows what might happen, what conditions we might find….if and when. That $5.00 each week buys you TIME. Time which may well be as valuable as anything else when you need it to decide a course of action. Time to choose your path. Breathing space so you can make calm, informed decisions. Time which others will not have.
What are you prepping for? Really yer prepping for the future. Might be a bank crash/economic “realignment”. Might be a software worm that makes modern electronic banking stop working. Might be a terrorist attack. Might be a natural disaster (’cause FEMA and the local folks did so well post Katrina, didn’t they?) Might be an internet attack on our infrastructure, causing electricity to stop for a while. Might be any number of scenarios. No matter what happens (if anything) you, because of your preps, will have bought yourself some time to deal with the issues. Time most people will not have.
And that time may well be worth more than anything….Yer preps will be a great value when that happens.
“Owning a gun without practice does not make you an armed citizen any more than owning a guitar makes you a musician.”
Cooper
I think I haz it.
This one.
Sadly, we have many who fit this description….many in our government.
The more things change the more they stay the same.
Note the date.
I mean, really, Jedi Knights?
and thoughts about their issues here.
I see religious infighting coming soon.
Those Czechs, you know…
I wanna know where they are getting the LightSabers.
These are worth watching.
Like he says, if MTV is running these, then things are just going wrong.
Scary.
How’s yer ammo supply? Yer level of training? Last time you went to the range? Did a combat course?
Might want to rectify that soon.
Just Sayin’.
WTF happened to the people of Boston(in particular) and Massachussets in general?
238 years ago today their ancestors took action which led to the Revolution which foreshadowed the forming of our country…..and the writing of the Constitution….which made this country the magnet for freedom seeking peoples all over the world.
Yet today, those same tea party participants would likely spit in the faces of the current residents of Boston and the state in which it resides.
I guess all the freedom lovers moved west and south.
What a shame.
200 years ago today, the fault known as the New Madrid Fault shook the Midwest (and continued for another few months).
The earthquake caused the Mississippi to run backwards for a time and cracked sidewalks in DC.
Whaddya think might happen if that shaking occurred today? With a greater population density and people living in more modern homes (not cabins)?
FEMA would likely have another opportunity to fumble their way through the disaster.
But in the meantime a lot of folks would starve, and may more would die of exposure.
Likely while the National Guard confiscated firearms….
Prep for such things…..have a plan. Have a secondary stash of preps in case your home is destroyed so you have time to dig yer primary shit out of the wreckage of your home while waiting for a blue tarp .
Have you got earthquake insurance? Mine costs me less than 20 bucks a year for a $5k deductible plan. Likely never need it, but it’ll sure come in handy if we have a 7.0 + here in Indiana and my basement walls collapse.
Just a thought.