Survivalist boards online are always abuzz with end-time scenarios about what will happen when the grid goes down. For many Americans, the notion of being without power, water, and a constant source of food and supplies is frightening. An entire industry has sprung up that includes solar power backups, survival gardening, and home defense.
While home defense will be necessary in some situations, it has unfortunately become the focus of many people on these survivalist boards. There is no harm in having a food stockpile, a canister of survivalist garden seeds, and a plan for bugging out. However, it can become an unhealthy obsession, and people talk on for hours and days about how they will have to kill trespassers.
In any emergency situation, there will be some people who panic. Being unprepared can open the door for terrible things to happen to them. There is no reason why one in a more comfortable circumstance should become that terrible thing to someone who has had to flee their home in the face of apocalyptic scenarios.
Survivalists go on the assumption that they must be prepared to care for themselves and their loved ones in a crisis. There is nothing wrong with this notion of independent existence so long as they do not allow themselves to view every stranger as a danger. History has shown that people generally help one-another in a crisis, and this should continue to be the case.
Anyone who plans to defend their territory with firearms will be held accountable for their actions in doing so. If one is firing upon a group of people before asking them to identify themselves and state their business is committing a crime. There is no reason to commit murder just because someone happens to be traveling through your neighborhood.
There is no reason to deny food or shelter to a family group, or any other band of people who come peacefully to the door. Most emergency scenarios are only temporary collapses and come due to war or natural disasters. Very few people who approach a homesteader are likely to be willing to kill them in order to ensure their own comfort or survival, and if they did, they would likely be tried for their crimes once the situation abates.
In fact, one must anticipate many travelers to be armed themselves. A person who would not have intended any harm will suddenly become a dangerous enemy in the face of an aggressor firing upon them needlessly. This would be a ridiculous tragedy which can be easily avoided if cooler heads are able to prevail.
The fact is, a small group of refugees may have members who have knowledge of gardening, medicine, and maintenance of machines or farm equipment. As family groups come together in the spirit of cooperation, they become a community that helps house, feed, and protect one another. Human beings have survived by their kindness towards others and not because they had a million bullets to fly at a stranger.
While home defense will be necessary in some situations, it has unfortunately become the focus of many people on these survivalist boards. There is no harm in having a food stockpile, a canister of survivalist garden seeds, and a plan for bugging out. However, it can become an unhealthy obsession, and people talk on for hours and days about how they will have to kill trespassers.
In any emergency situation, there will be some people who panic. Being unprepared can open the door for terrible things to happen to them. There is no reason why one in a more comfortable circumstance should become that terrible thing to someone who has had to flee their home in the face of apocalyptic scenarios.
Survivalists go on the assumption that they must be prepared to care for themselves and their loved ones in a crisis. There is nothing wrong with this notion of independent existence so long as they do not allow themselves to view every stranger as a danger. History has shown that people generally help one-another in a crisis, and this should continue to be the case.
Anyone who plans to defend their territory with firearms will be held accountable for their actions in doing so. If one is firing upon a group of people before asking them to identify themselves and state their business is committing a crime. There is no reason to commit murder just because someone happens to be traveling through your neighborhood.
There is no reason to deny food or shelter to a family group, or any other band of people who come peacefully to the door. Most emergency scenarios are only temporary collapses and come due to war or natural disasters. Very few people who approach a homesteader are likely to be willing to kill them in order to ensure their own comfort or survival, and if they did, they would likely be tried for their crimes once the situation abates.
In fact, one must anticipate many travelers to be armed themselves. A person who would not have intended any harm will suddenly become a dangerous enemy in the face of an aggressor firing upon them needlessly. This would be a ridiculous tragedy which can be easily avoided if cooler heads are able to prevail.
The fact is, a small group of refugees may have members who have knowledge of gardening, medicine, and maintenance of machines or farm equipment. As family groups come together in the spirit of cooperation, they become a community that helps house, feed, and protect one another. Human beings have survived by their kindness towards others and not because they had a million bullets to fly at a stranger.
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