I’ve read the same articles that S.A.M. quotes from Selco.
What even MORE scary than ex-cops or ex-troops forming gangs, is the face-in-the-crowd types whose inner demon rears up.
Selco describes the guy next door, the absolute nebbish who never got noticed by anyone - who became the most ruthless underworld kingpin during SHTF, once all the societal norms vanished. He was freed to channel his inner monster.
You can’t know if the dweeb at the cash register at Home Depot will turn into The Governor from Walking Dead. You can’t know if that nice sweet girl at the Antioch Primitive Baptist Church might be a Ladies Auxiliary in the Bloods.
SHTF brings out the worst. It can also bring out the best. But you have to watch for the worst.
“SHTF brings out the worst. It can also bring out the best. But you have to watch for the worst.”
In my post 112 I was answering the fellow who said if a 12 yr. old girl was starving at the front door, would you feed her? You can’t act as normal in a SHTF situation. Normally, someone knocks on the door (or rings the door bell when there is power) we are programmed to open the door. In a SHTF situation, don’t open the door because you don’t know who is there and you are bugging in, being quiet that you are there.
The next time your doorbell rings or there is a knock, don’t open the door so you can experience the strong urge you have to open the door.
Since I live alone, I don’t open my door after dark (unless I know someone is coming). That doesn’t happen often, but when it does, I have to force myself not to open the door.
We need to think now how our behavior has to change when the SHTF. I have plain old lady type clothes to wear in case I absolutely had to go out my front door. If it’s a case that water has been off for a while, I won’t look totally clean, either. There will be stains on the old lady look clothes and my hair won’t be perfectly done and there won’t be any makeup on my face, and definitely no jewelry on.
Every person is suspect when it comes to your safety - I won’t trust anyone who is outside my house and I’m not opening the door.