re: #6 Charles Johnson
I Googled “prepping” and discovered that there’s a whole right wing movement dedicated to this. First time I’d heard the term in this context.
You should start watching “Doomsday Preppers” on Nat geo . Last night featured a guy who built his own assault weapon taking the “best features” of the AK-47 and the AR-16. He calls it the “Joshua” after his favorite biblical general, and he says it’s for shooting looters when the world crumbles.