Yup but if things get that bad and they might for a few months, then it would be a good idea to take in a few to help guard things. But don’t show up empty handed with nothing to offer. I’m well stocked and could last 6 months, plus I live right on a bay so I can fish, I have a large garden, a fresh water well and 2 wood burning stoves for cooking. I do need a little more ammo, I have been putting that off for some time now awaiting for a sign that the time has come to spend some of my cash reserve.
Sorry for the late response.
I wish I lived on a bay. I have a private well, drilled for Y2k, but if the power is out, I either make a lot of noise with a generator or haul water up a quart at the time.
.22 Ammo is a good thing to have in large quantities... for protection, game and trading. I don’t really want to give anyone 7.62 rounds in trade. If I could trade BB’s, I would.
If you haven’t read “One Second After”, I highly recommend it.
The author is a smart guy who carefully considered and laid out the initial stresses and deterioration of society in the first few days of a collapse of services that, while caused by EMP in the book, could be caused by any number of events... such as this financial situation.
Newt Gingrich wrote the forward. Newt also brought up the danger of an EMP strike in the last debate as being the greatest external threat that we faced.