Having to redo my 72 hour bag recently I ended up on a bunch of survivalist websites. (Mostly http://offgridsurvival.com/ http://offgridsurvival.com/ ) They all

Having to redo my 72 hour bag recently I ended up on a bunch of survivalist websites. (Mostly http://offgridsurvival.com/ http://offgridsurvival.com/ ) They all have this tendency to start reasonable, and then go off the rails into crazy town. You'll have some good reviews of legitimate things you'd want like flashlights solar power radios, cooking stoves, knives, multitools, stableized food and the like, and then it goes into gasmasks, trauma kits for your "everyday carry" and of course guns. Lots and lots of guns, oh and bullets in common calibers for "ballistic wampum". The subculture paints a world of black helicopters, and roving gangs of George Soros funded Black Lives Matter cannibals, ISIS EMP attacks, Supervolcanos, and so we're going to have to secretly leave cities by shooting our way out to our hidden mountain cabin ("Never tell anyone where your redoubt is. That's basic opsec.") Oh and along the way you'll may want to hand over boxes of ammunition to strangers for needed supplies. The thing is though, I totally get it. It's a problem. How long can you hold out with resupplies? How can you pack this better? How can you reduce weight? It's an engineering problem. The right wing conspiracy theories and and that up it neighbor is just waiting for the right moment to kill, eat you, and your skin into a jaunty hat is just absurd wish fulfillment fantasy.