There are waanabees everywhere.
Part of being 'civilized' is that we all agree to abide by certain codes, standards, laws, whatever.
In a SHTF situation, are you going to squander your medical supplies on marauders who would be triaged out anyway? Nope. Harsh reality.
But we're not in a SHTF situation.
Yeah, there are sickos out there who might fantasize about whacking bad guys or being big bad gunslingers. There are sickos who do more than fantasize.
If the SHTF, they will be some of the first to go, and it's likely they'll take some good people with them.
The rest of us have wrapped our heads around at least a few fragments of what that SHTF situation will entail if it happens, and pray every day we can haul civilization back from the brink.
You have to stay alive to do that, but you have to stay civilized somewhere in your core being, too.
Civility begins with 1.) NOT breaking into other peoples' homes and 2.) expecting dire consequences if you do. Alas, because we are becoming less civilized, people who break and enter into strangers' homes are more and more often given a free pass. No consequences but a liberal lawyer and judge who attribute the "mess up" to "corporate greed" and "societal pressures" rather than the individuals' choice to take a life threatening risk against his neighbors' property.
To all the little brats who mourn their buddys' loss, take it as fair warning: You break into someones' home, you'd best be willing to die for the privilege, whether it be slow and steady, or a single shot.
And with that I'll retire to read E.B. Whites' advice on use of the possessive apostrophe.
What I laugh at the most is how many people are on the run. Assaulted for their color (white), assaulted for their religion (Christian), assaulted for their riches (they worked their asses off and life for), assaulted for their core beliefs, assaulted for their heterosexuality (monogamous), assaulted on EVERY FRONT, who STILL want to hang on to something that IS ALREADY GONE. Don’t wait for a total STHF scenario where it somehow “makes” it ok to slaughter the wastrels stealing away YOUR life. The WAR IS ON. Yeah, let us try and “hold on”. That is what I want for my kids and grandkids. If you don’t make a stand you just leave it for them to fight. When I think about my kids or grandkids being slaughtered because they tried to hold on to “civilization”. Well... I’d just soon as not leave it for them.