Many Americans would identify themselves as survivalists, and there are numerous online communities where they share advice on the topic. It frightens us to imagine life without the comforts of electric lights and central air. People have capitalized on this and created an industry based on food stockpiles, survival gardening, and self defense when the grid goes down.
While home defense will be necessary in some situations, it has unfortunately become the focus of many people on these survivalist boards. There is no harm in having a food stockpile, a canister of survivalist garden seeds, and a plan for bugging out. However, it can become an unhealthy obsession, and people talk on for hours and days about how they will have to kill trespassers.
In any emergency situation, there will be some people who panic. Being unprepared can open the door for terrible things to happen to them. There is no reason why one in a more comfortable circumstance should become that terrible thing to someone who has had to flee their home in the face of apocalyptic scenarios.
While we cannot always count on law enforcement or the military to protect us, we still have to use some basic common goodness when regarding other people. Most refugees travel in family groups and are more than willing to identify themselves to anyone they approach. The Great Depression taught us just how people come together and help one another in a crisis scenario.
Those who are armed have a responsibility to know who or what they are shooting at, no matter the circumstances surrounding them. As a rule, people will travel in family groups, and pose no threat to anyone they meet. Shooting at strangers simply because they wandered into your yard is never an acceptable behavior.
There is no reason to deny food or shelter to a family group, or any other band of people who come peacefully to the door. Most emergency scenarios are only temporary collapses and come due to war or natural disasters. Very few people who approach a homesteader are likely to be willing to kill them in order to ensure their own comfort or survival, and if they did, they would likely be tried for their crimes once the situation abates.
Traveling groups of refugees are also quite likely to have armed members within their ranks as well. Should a family group begin firing upon refugees without first asking them to state their business, they may find they have made matters much worse for themselves and their loved ones. Should a group of travelers refuse to state who they are and why they are there, then deadly measures may be called for at that time, but not before.
The fact is, a small group of refugees may have members who have knowledge of gardening, medicine, and maintenance of machines or farm equipment. As family groups come together in the spirit of cooperation, they become a community that helps house, feed, and protect one another. Human beings have survived by their kindness towards others and not because they had a million bullets to fly at a stranger.
While home defense will be necessary in some situations, it has unfortunately become the focus of many people on these survivalist boards. There is no harm in having a food stockpile, a canister of survivalist garden seeds, and a plan for bugging out. However, it can become an unhealthy obsession, and people talk on for hours and days about how they will have to kill trespassers.
In any emergency situation, there will be some people who panic. Being unprepared can open the door for terrible things to happen to them. There is no reason why one in a more comfortable circumstance should become that terrible thing to someone who has had to flee their home in the face of apocalyptic scenarios.
While we cannot always count on law enforcement or the military to protect us, we still have to use some basic common goodness when regarding other people. Most refugees travel in family groups and are more than willing to identify themselves to anyone they approach. The Great Depression taught us just how people come together and help one another in a crisis scenario.
Those who are armed have a responsibility to know who or what they are shooting at, no matter the circumstances surrounding them. As a rule, people will travel in family groups, and pose no threat to anyone they meet. Shooting at strangers simply because they wandered into your yard is never an acceptable behavior.
There is no reason to deny food or shelter to a family group, or any other band of people who come peacefully to the door. Most emergency scenarios are only temporary collapses and come due to war or natural disasters. Very few people who approach a homesteader are likely to be willing to kill them in order to ensure their own comfort or survival, and if they did, they would likely be tried for their crimes once the situation abates.
Traveling groups of refugees are also quite likely to have armed members within their ranks as well. Should a family group begin firing upon refugees without first asking them to state their business, they may find they have made matters much worse for themselves and their loved ones. Should a group of travelers refuse to state who they are and why they are there, then deadly measures may be called for at that time, but not before.
The fact is, a small group of refugees may have members who have knowledge of gardening, medicine, and maintenance of machines or farm equipment. As family groups come together in the spirit of cooperation, they become a community that helps house, feed, and protect one another. Human beings have survived by their kindness towards others and not because they had a million bullets to fly at a stranger.
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