[Joe 6-pack]

"Perhaps the biggest fallacy held among modern patriots, militia groups and survivalists is the idea of SHTF...the idea that one day everything is going to be perfectly normal and the next day life is utter chaos…it’s just not going to happen."

I have a hard time ceding credibility to a writer who never heard of Hurricane Katrina...it was in all the papers for a while. Was it a complete SHTF scenario? When the cops become looters, I'd say it's close enough.

[Red in Blue PA]

It may not have been big news in Argentina.

[super7man]

I agree with you. The author is projecting total colapse of society on a national level and that is unlikely.

I am prepared for the scenario that you have proposed, local natural disaster. Katrina is a good example, LA riots, another. These are temporary situations that are probably more dangerous than total colapse.

[SUSSA]

Katrina is a good example of a pistol being more useful than a long gun. When the authorities went house to house confiscating guns the only ones they didn’t get were the pistols in people’s pockets.

People who didn’t tell the cops and solders who searched their homes that they had a pistol in their pocket lost their long guns but not their pocket pistols.