Agreed. I’m responsible for my family, including a few beloved unprepared relatives. I CANNOT be responsible for the rest of the crowd.
And we’ve tried to help the community with Dave Ramsey get out of debt classes, Boy Scouts and American Heritage Girls. Get out of debt, live responsibly, learn basic survival skills. I have tried, and many refused. When the SHTF, my responsibility is to my children and immediate family.
Also a good book by Kress.
“I CANNOT be responsible for the rest of the crowd.”
I find there are two basic types of people that hate preppers: Those that think they will somehow take what the peppers have and are demonizing them now to drum up public support to attack them later, and those that are too lazy to do the same for themselves and are angry at themselves for being lazy but project their anger at preppers.
The fact is no one can feed their neighborhood for but a few days before all their food is gone. It simply takes massive tonnage of food and supplies to keep society going and no one is going to store that much by themselves. I know people that think they’ll store extra items and be good little citizens feeding the “needy” but they fail to realize just how needy everyone will be and that their provisions will be gone in hours or days and they get to starve too.
Anyone that starts prepping quickly realizes these things and their preps turn to weapons. People tell their families their plans only to hear, “Good to know, we’ll be coming to your place empty handed.” They try to talk to their neighbors about current events and maybe planning to be prepared only to hear, “Good to know, we’ll be coming to your place empty handed.” They hear others say, “Those people with stuff had better be prepared to share or else the only things I need to find food are my guns.”