Guns. Lots of guns.
This kind of talk looks sillier and sillier when it increasingly looks like we won’t even have a double dip recession, let alone a depression.
Got the big stuff too but I see my Daisy as invaluable.
My 13 year old daughter is target practicing down the hall as I type.
ping to read later
You should have a group prearranged so when things fall down you know where to go and who to let in. I consider a group of eight healthy adults to be the minimum needed. Add another healthy adult for every three children, disabled or elderly person.
During the time following the recent earthquake in Chile the outgoing president refused to send in the army to maintain order. In the first week there was a lot of looting and lawlessness. By the second week the neighborhoods had organized, set guard patrols and when the signal was given people would pour out of their homes armed with whatever they could find to protect their area.
If you have your group prearranged you can skip the week of unpleasantness and move right into the "beat the looters to a bloody pulp" phase which is far more fun.
A tin cup... no one ever mentions a tin cup...
I don’t remember this Mad Max scenario occurring during the Great Depression, but I suppose I could have missed that little tidbit. Not.
Anybody running generators and electric lights will attract the bad guys like a streetlight attracts moths on a hot summer night. You will quickly be surrounded and your fate will be sealed.
Guns and ammo will only delay the inevitable. Hungry and desperate people will simply wait until the ammo runs out and then they will close in...and if you took out a bunch of them in the meantime, they won't exactly be in a neighborly mood when they reach you.
So what to do? Still prepare and build yourself a nice cache. But keep a low profile and pretend to those outside your circle that you are just as hungry and desperate as they are. Don't be running generators or lights and don't be bragging on how you were smarter than everybody else by being prepared.