Nope. I'm just thinkin' out loud. Let's say that - for whatever reason - the USA's food distribution network breaks down for a month or so. I'm guessing that folks with hungry, starving children aren't going to just sit at home and do nothing. They're going to go a'raiding. It would be like the Watts riots, times 100.
Will you at the front door with a .357 and Uncle Joe at the back door with a shotgun scare them off, for good? I don't think so. Starving people, especially when they are also armed, are a formidable foe.
That's why I say preppers are screwed too.
But you are correct when you said you'll take your chances. The more preparation a person makes, the better, even if the long-term odds are still poor.
Thanks for the historical reference.
I'm not in a city center known for crime. I expect that they will wipe themselves out before they get too far.
And for that expectation.... I'll point to barbarians raiding Rome. The barbs were looking for food, they found some gold and took it. Some folks died.
But the take-away is that Romans were starving when the barbs hit the gates.
That's history.
/johnny
And romans swapped barb kids for dog meat.
And it took a long slow painful process for it to devolve to the empty treasury in Rome to finally get sacked.
History doesn't repeat... but it rhymes.
/johnny
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