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14-01-2004, 05:32 AM

In article . net,
says...

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And above all, don't have anything to do with any of the people that look
upon the gun as their primary survival tool.

Real survivalists look upon their BRAIN as their
primary survival tool...

YMMV

If you even let them know where your Shelter is, you will be sorry, because
they will be forced by their own stupidity and ignorance to become brigands
in no time, if they even live that long.

That doesn't pharse well.

I think you're saying that letting people know where you live might result
in
unfriendly visits.

Not letting them know where you are will prevent friendly visits, too. Or
people being able to find you if you need help...

The other group of people here to avoid, and the two often overlap, are
the ones that seem to think that they can live just like the American
Pioneers did in the MOVIES.

PBS had a series a while ago - sort of their answer to SURVIVOR -
where they took three modern families, gave them only the tools
and supplies that pioneers would have had, and plopped them down
in the wilderness to build cabins, raise animals, etc.

They did OK. Even though they weren't allowed to hunt.

Now, if - like certain people I could name - you seem to be
basing your survival plans on some sort of fantasy of living
in perfect synch with nature like American Indians do in
historically inaccurate fiction and American mythology...

Then you are in DEEP doo-doo.

Sorry. But the North American continent is just not what it was back then.
There are 100X as many people and 1/100th of the unspoiled wilderness.

More rats, squirrels, dogs, cats, and birds, though.

And PLENTY of insects.

And most of them have guns but no other survival skills.

Actually, most people who have guns have considerable survival
skills. Whether it's being able to hunt in the wilderness, or avoid
being snuffed on mean city streets, or enforce the law, or defend
this country from enemies foreign and domestic; being a gun
owner HARDLY is a sign of lack of learning ability.

Which leaves competing for the rapidly dwindling populations of large
game animals and piracy their only means of survival.

Farming, gathering of wild edible plants, fishing, foraging
for small animals / insects / worms, all being impossible,
I take it.

When they run out of canned goods they are going to be dangerous as ****,
or sooner if they don't have any stores.

alanc...

The End of the World as We Know It is not going to happen. It's
an intellectual exercise to imagine what things will be like afterwards.
It is NOT a reason not to prepare for other, more limited but MUCH
more probable dangers like fire, flood, hazmat spill, massive snow-
storm / freezing temperatures / prolonged power outage, etc. And it
is foolish to castigate and insult people because they don't subscribe
to your view of things but instead actually PREPARE for disaster instead
of just talking about it.

FW. Who thinks you might be happier moving over to the Patriot
Network website and checking out the GUNkid forum. You and GK
are each other's worst nightmare AND opposite sides of the same
coin, and I'm sure the two of you would be very agitated together...