“Shortly before Y2K a woman was carrying the extra $150 worth of groceries she had purchased into her house as emergency supplies.
She ask her next door neighbor how much he had spent to prepare in case there was an emergency.
He said “$4.50 for a box of shotgun shells”. She told him “you can’t eat shotgun shells !”.
His reply “ If worse comes to worst I will shoot you with the shells and eat your food, if nothing happens I’ll use them to shoot Skeet”.”
If someone threatened me like that I might shoot them on the spot.
The neighbor woman was anti-gun that much was true.
The guy told the story as a joke. I don't think that conversation ever took place.
But starving people, who knows what they might do.
That reminds me of the time a friend got into an argument over the phone with an employer who got so angry he said he was coming over with his 357 magnum. My friend said fine, he has a .22 rifle and will take him out before he gets within a block of his house.
Molon Labe.