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People that Won’t Survive SHTF
The Modern Survivalist ^ | June 11, 2013 | Fernando Aguirre

Posted on 06/22/2013 8:34:12 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator

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To: The Working Man

Which also means nobody is around to help.


41 posted on 06/22/2013 9:58:32 AM PDT by driftdiver (I could eat it raw, but why do that when I have a fire.)
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To: qaz123

Thanks for the links.


42 posted on 06/22/2013 10:01:11 AM PDT by VRW Conspirator (The Lefties can drink Kool-Aid; I will drink Tea.)
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To: Theoria
It is hard to say who would survive a shtf type of situation.

But it's pretty easy to identify those that won't.

/johnny

43 posted on 06/22/2013 10:17:25 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: Kirkwood
I doubt that.

I don't, I'm the same way. 3 steps to a loaded firearm from anywhere in the house.

/johnny

44 posted on 06/22/2013 10:22:01 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: VRW Conspirator

My ex has been mugged 5 times. Even a lady at work politely said that ‘at times’ she doesn’t have a clue. I’m afraid she’ll die a violent death. Obama voter. Thinks guns are the problem. No street smarts.


45 posted on 06/22/2013 10:24:12 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET (urope. Why do they put up with this.)
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To: VRW Conspirator

My brother and I call them ‘zoo people’. They are used to having everything handed to them, never having to really worry about anyone hunting them, there is always food, water, medicine readily available, always an awning to hide under when it rains.

Zero situational awareness in urban areas, I don’t know how they even survive in modern world. For sure they would either have to learn fast or die in even a localized SHTF situation.


46 posted on 06/22/2013 10:29:20 AM PDT by Betis70 (Bruins! We want the Cup!)
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To: driftdiver

Perhaps :-)


47 posted on 06/22/2013 10:39:01 AM PDT by The Working Man
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To: JRandomFreeper

Interesting discussion. I just had to check it out. 9 “strides” from shower is furthest. Guess I will have to arm the bathroom with more than “silent, but deadlies”.


48 posted on 06/22/2013 10:46:32 AM PDT by Gadsden1st
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To: Gadsden1st
Sister came by a while back, and while looking for some particular sheet music, opened the piano bench and said: "Do you know there is a coach gun in your piano bench? And it's loaded?"

I don't allow my grandkids to come into the house until they pass their NRA safety course. ;)

/johnny

49 posted on 06/22/2013 10:53:02 AM PDT by JRandomFreeper (Gone Galt)
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To: VRW Conspirator
I think people wandering around parking lots are the ones most endangered. I look in all 4 directions before I slowly back out of my parking space. A few feet out and there are people who are oblivious that a Cheve Tahoe is slowly moving toward them. I haven't run over anyone yet..........
50 posted on 06/22/2013 10:56:41 AM PDT by Ditter
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To: Gadsden1st

I have been in several homes where one cannot get more than ten feet from a loaded gun (no lock, round in the chamber, safety off). I always feel safe in those homes, and I have never seen a kid touch a gun without permission in one of those homes.


51 posted on 06/22/2013 10:58:42 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: Thane_Banquo

To survive in jungle that is our Urban world, you need to have a combination of street smarts, guile, and instinct.

Do not underestimate their ability to survive.

Just because they choose not to live according to the “rules of society”, dont think for a second that they do not live quite well by the rules of the jungle.

They will live pretty well at first. If they make it through those first few scary days and weeks, they will ultimately fail when it comes time to work as part of a team, group, or self organized community.

Again, more of them will be shot.


52 posted on 06/22/2013 11:01:34 AM PDT by Vermont Lt (Does anybody really know what time it is? Does anybody really care?)
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To: Vermont Lt
The inner city will go due to violence, but they will march into the suburbs and get what they want deserve. Don't underestimate suburbia, or rural areas ability to defend their familys.
53 posted on 06/22/2013 11:04:29 AM PDT by American in Israel (A wise man's heart directs him to the right, but the foolish mans heart directs him toward the left.)
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To: VRW Conspirator; Kartographer

I see all the grammar, syntax, and punctuation errors in this.

Then I see it’s Ferfal.

I forgive Selco and Ferfal their errors. I even catch myself reading Selco and hearing a Slavic accent.


54 posted on 06/22/2013 11:07:38 AM PDT by Old Sarge (My "KMA List" is growing daily...)
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To: qaz123
One is kind of a essay, the other fictional.

Wrong word: Prescient.

55 posted on 06/22/2013 11:09:11 AM PDT by Old Sarge (My "KMA List" is growing daily...)
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To: M Kehoe

And check six.


56 posted on 06/22/2013 11:18:37 AM PDT by Old Sarge (My "KMA List" is growing daily...)
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To: expat2

My parent both lived through the 67 riots in Detroit, and both told me that all of the men in their respective neighborhoods in the suburbs were out on their front porches with their rifles and shotguns waiting for the inner city folks to dare and try and loot their homes. Would have kicked off a race war if the blacks had tried.


57 posted on 06/22/2013 11:41:37 AM PDT by Feasor13
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To: Pollster1

I was raised in a house like that; firearms in corners behind outside doors, in gun racks in the house and in pickups- then pistols in nooks and crannies. I have no idea how dad trained us kids to leave that all alone, was too little to remember that training but would have never touched any of those firearms or anything related to them in a million years. I remember him teaching us safety and how to shoot when we were older but don’t remember the early toddler training we had to have. I was not necessarily afraid of firearms- just knew absolutely that I had to leave them alone.


58 posted on 06/22/2013 11:47:33 AM PDT by Tammy8 (~Secure the border and deport all illegals- do it now! ~ Support our Troops!~)
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To: Tammy8

We had a rule that I was certain would be enforced - touch a gun without permission, and you’re banned from shooting for a year. That is such an incredibly long time to a kid that none of us would have dared to break that rule, and I don’t think that punishment was ever imposed. We didn’t have guns very ten feet, but there were more than a dozen guns in our home. I hope the pendulum swings back in that direction in our society.


59 posted on 06/22/2013 11:57:25 AM PDT by Pollster1 ("Shall not be infringed" is unambiguous.)
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To: The Working Man

I worked in several posts in Africa that were a bit shaky. Many of the staff quarters were away from the embassy and were protected, as you described, with high walls with broken glass embedded on the top. Many of the quarters also had “rape rooms,” usually the master bedroom, protected by bars. I stayed in one in Lusaka, Zambia, like that. It also had a local unarmed guard patrolling during the night. Just to be safe inside the Rape Room, it was best to keep a shotgun.


60 posted on 06/22/2013 12:28:22 PM PDT by Ax
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