Good post.
I have though of this and one thing that comes to mind is that the closest, most immediate group that can become a threat might not be the ghetto mobs who have a way to travel.
The most immediate danger might just be everyday non-prepper people from the area.
And especially dangerous when those non-preppers are neighbors or casual acquaintances with starving children - people who were thought of as friends, or at least non-threats.
At first they will be harder to defend against than gangsters (who will be ready to shoot a neighbor?) and they will already be inside our perimeters.
Also they will be ready to leverage any relationship or familiarity and will probably have some idea of who has some resources, the type and depth of security that can be mounted, etc.
And at first they won't come banging on our door to open it by force - they will send their starving little kids in an attempt to get us to open it willingly.
With all respect, Munro: you’re worrying too much.
My Lord taught me a number of things, including:
‘Render unto Caesar” and “Be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves”
But He also told me this:
“Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
“Which of you by taking thought can add one cubit unto his stature?
“And why take ye thought for raiment? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin: And yet I say unto you, That even Solomon in all his glory was not arrayed like one of these.
“Wherefore, if God so clothe the grass of the field, which to day is, and tomorrow is cast into the oven, shall he not much more clothe you, O ye of little faith?
“Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things.
“But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.”
I’m not suggesting that people be fools, and not have a little ‘insurance’; but spending too much time thinking about the horrible things that might happen, in my opinion, might just bring them on!
-JT