re: Do you consider yourself a "Prepper"

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Of course our government will never collapse and the currency will never go to zero. It's never happened in any other country and it can not ever happen here.

only a fool would think that such unprecedented events could happen here.

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But if you think you are gonna be able to go all Jessie James and just roll up into people's houses with your gun and take whatever you want.....I'm afraid that the times and situation of SHTF would make that very difficult. People that took the time to prep with supplies probably took the time to prep with defense. They will be on defense and will not hesitate to shoot someone that steps the 1st foot on their property.

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THIS^^^ This thread shows that many people believe a rifle and some ammo is all the prep they're gonna need -- they'll just take what they want. That's interesting. Good to know.

The key with being prepared isn't a bunker or mounds of freeze dried food. It is old ways skills. Can you find water, can you grow food, raise livestock successfully, cooperate with your neighbors, fix things, build useful things? Those kinds of skills are more important than stuff.

Whoever said knowledge is the best prep was right on the money IMO.

The ignorance of history displayed in this thread is surprising... or maybe it's just over confidence in our current system. Most of us would not even be here if our ancestors 4 generations ago didn't have enough sense to prepare for a failed harvest, flood, or some other calamity that would have eliminated food supply in a given year. Anybody here ever heard of Just-in-time delivery? And most of you live in hurricane country. Wow.

What was common sense for most of America's history is now considered insane?

Hmm. To me that belief in chimeras, in governments that don't go totalitarian, currencies that don't collapse, military that never get defeated, and borders that never get violated by hostile forces is crazy. Believing that is like driving forward by looking in your review mirror.

Failure to plan is planning to fail.