Many Americans would identify themselves as survivalists, and there are numerous online communities where they share advice on the topic. It frightens us to imagine life without the comforts of electric lights and central air. People have capitalized on this and created an industry based on food stockpiles, survival gardening, and self defense when the grid goes down.
While home defense will be necessary in some situations, it has unfortunately become the focus of many people on these survivalist boards. There is no harm in having a food stockpile, a canister of survivalist garden seeds, and a plan for bugging out. However, it can become an unhealthy obsession, and people talk on for hours and days about how they will have to kill trespassers.
There are always people who panic in a crisis, and the collapse of basic infrastructure will result in some people acting in uncharacteristic ways. However, many people will be able to remain in their homes, and with proper preparation, they can maintain their basic survival. This does not mean that the panic will be so severe that the law of the jungle will prevail.
A survivalist knows that governments, law enforcement agencies, and militia are not necessarily going to be there to help them. However, this does not mean that every person, or group of people, who wander into their territory are there to harm them. Most people, given a choice, will help one-another in these situations, just as they did during the Great Depression and just after both great wars.
Anyone who plans to defend their territory with firearms will be held accountable for their actions in doing so. If one is firing upon a group of people before asking them to identify themselves and state their business is committing a crime. There is no reason to commit murder just because someone happens to be traveling through your neighborhood.
To deny food and shelter to a group of people simply because they are not family is cruel. It's important to remember that these periods of collapse are always temporary, and a family is not likely to starve to death because they helped a stranger in need. Most approaching strangers pose no threat, and should violence ensue, murder is still murder at the end of the day.
Traveling groups of refugees are also quite likely to have armed members within their ranks as well. Should a family group begin firing upon refugees without first asking them to state their business, they may find they have made matters much worse for themselves and their loved ones. Should a group of travelers refuse to state who they are and why they are there, then deadly measures may be called for at that time, but not before.
The fact is, a small group of refugees may have members who have knowledge of gardening, medicine, and maintenance of machines or farm equipment. As family groups come together in the spirit of cooperation, they become a community that helps house, feed, and protect one another. Human beings have survived by their kindness towards others and not because they had a million bullets to fly at a stranger.
While home defense will be necessary in some situations, it has unfortunately become the focus of many people on these survivalist boards. There is no harm in having a food stockpile, a canister of survivalist garden seeds, and a plan for bugging out. However, it can become an unhealthy obsession, and people talk on for hours and days about how they will have to kill trespassers.
There are always people who panic in a crisis, and the collapse of basic infrastructure will result in some people acting in uncharacteristic ways. However, many people will be able to remain in their homes, and with proper preparation, they can maintain their basic survival. This does not mean that the panic will be so severe that the law of the jungle will prevail.
A survivalist knows that governments, law enforcement agencies, and militia are not necessarily going to be there to help them. However, this does not mean that every person, or group of people, who wander into their territory are there to harm them. Most people, given a choice, will help one-another in these situations, just as they did during the Great Depression and just after both great wars.
Anyone who plans to defend their territory with firearms will be held accountable for their actions in doing so. If one is firing upon a group of people before asking them to identify themselves and state their business is committing a crime. There is no reason to commit murder just because someone happens to be traveling through your neighborhood.
To deny food and shelter to a group of people simply because they are not family is cruel. It's important to remember that these periods of collapse are always temporary, and a family is not likely to starve to death because they helped a stranger in need. Most approaching strangers pose no threat, and should violence ensue, murder is still murder at the end of the day.
Traveling groups of refugees are also quite likely to have armed members within their ranks as well. Should a family group begin firing upon refugees without first asking them to state their business, they may find they have made matters much worse for themselves and their loved ones. Should a group of travelers refuse to state who they are and why they are there, then deadly measures may be called for at that time, but not before.
The fact is, a small group of refugees may have members who have knowledge of gardening, medicine, and maintenance of machines or farm equipment. As family groups come together in the spirit of cooperation, they become a community that helps house, feed, and protect one another. Human beings have survived by their kindness towards others and not because they had a million bullets to fly at a stranger.
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