Originally Posted by JessTD

honestly you have to be absolutely naive or stupid to think that if the governments were to fail that simply stockpiling food and water will save you

in a world like that at the end of the day a gun is going to get you farther than a loaf of bread. obviously you may see enclaves of people band together but with what? with a promise of protection from the outside world and in that world it will be kill or be killed. not some perfect world where the govt dies and everyone just lives off what they got. u take what you need when you need or you die.

on one hand im being totally outrageous for the sake of being so but on the other hand you have to realize that some if not most of what im saying is quite likely to occur.

there is a fair balance to be achieved of stockpiling supplies and stockpiling weapons. when the supplies run out u gonna need the weapons to take more and defend what you have from others who may want them. cast off the weapons and you leave yourself absolutely defenseless unless you are willing to come under the protection of another or a group, but that comes at a price. loss of freedom, payment of goods or services. its the real world

of course this is all hypothetical BS