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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
So what will be the situation that Looters will start to invade your house?
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I don't know about you, but I will do the same thing as if I caught a burglar in my house tonight, I'd shoot him.
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
In a situation like Katrina it's important to get the police and National Guard out to protect householders and to remove guns from everyone else. Leaving guns can turn a bad situation into a worse one. In this situation the Government is the best bet.
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The problem is, they don't take the guns away from criminals. So the bad guys always have guns, the good guys do not. How do you think that plays out?
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Well you're looking at the History the wrong way.
Yes take measures to be prepared for natural disasters in your area, or move somewhere safer. Don't buy a house where they have wild fires, earthquakes, tornadoes, hurricanes or volcano eruptions. It seems a lot of the people who are scared do.
So make sure your home is able to withstand it or you have the provisions to see the disaster out. Common sense. The river here has a very large man made bank to stop it over flowing when the snow on the mountains melts. The Government looking after us.
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Paul, you are not seeing the larger picture that your government, and you, are dependent on the outside world. It is much more complex that building your house in the right area.
What does your country import? How much of everything you buy is imported? Where does your water come from? Where does your power come from? Where does your hospitals get their medicine? Where does your animal feed come from? Where does your country buy oil from? This list is huge. If you have experienced a real disaster you would not be saying the things you are, because it goes WAY beyond not building your home in the middle of tornado alley. The distribution chain is
everything. If that breaks down, everything breaks down. And you have to look at both local and country wide distribution chains. Just because it can get into your country doesn't mean it can reach you.
Your government looks out for you to a degree. But unless your country is 100% self sufficient (they are not), then you will live and die by the rise and fall of other nations and their disasters.
Disaster happen all over the world and they happen without notice. Once you figure out where everything you NEED to survive comes from, from your medicine, to your power, to the spare parts in the ER room at the hospital, then you can come back and say you have nothing to worry about if everything you need is produced locally.
That doesn't mean you have to live in fear, that would be stupid. But it means you shouldn't be so trustful that you're ass is covered 100%. Because in every disaster, there are those who make it through, and those who become statistics. Which one you will be is a mix of luck and preparation.
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Originally Posted by Paul Markham
Then your best plan is to move.
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Right, because it is impossible for distribution chains to break down anywhere else in the world. It only happens where yellow and brown people live.
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Originally Posted by theking
I repeat...when did the USA "collapse"?
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I repeat... Sounds like someone slept through American history class.
You're one of those people who think dinosaurs were put on earth to test your faith in God, aren't you?