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Gunman's Aunt: Nancy Lanza Talked About Survivalism

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lostlakehiker12/16/2012 5:22:44 pm PST

re: #45 calochortus

Sigh. Well, I’m off to dinner with the neighbors down the street. The people (along with everyone in between here and there) that I’d share my food, water and shelter with in case of the apocalypse. Shoot them? I don’t think so.

Have a good evening all.

Survival is a group deal, not an individual deal. Keeping good relations with the neighbors is a more effective way to prepare to survive a situation in which the government was offline, the electricity out, and so on, for a week, a month, or a lifetime, than amassing guns and food.

The food is moot in the first two of those scenarios, and the guns just about moot. One in every ten households is sufficient to deter looting, and a stack of guns is just an attractive target.

Knowing stuff other than the arcana of your own work is the other thing that could actually be useful in a survival situation. First aid skills, handyman skills, that sort of thing. All these are ways you might be able to make yourself useful to your neighbors if an economy had to be built back from near scratch, at least on a temporary basis.