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Building a house doesn't cause a flood plain to flood (hopefully!), but adding lots of guns to a country sounds like it should have an effect on the number of r

by strken 8y ago

Building a house doesn't cause a flood plain to flood (hopefully!), but adding lots of guns to a country sounds like it should have an effect on the number of revolutions, be it up or down. It's also not clear whether prepping will have been a good thing or a bad thing in the event of a revolution. You're arguably more likely to shoot yourself with a gun than to shoot someone else, even during a period of civil unrest; you're painting a target on yourself in the eyes the government; some measures you could take, like owning a gun, fortifying your house, firing your rifle at 7AM, owning an aggressive dog, or kicking people off your property, will socially isolate you from the same neighbours you'll need to cooperate with in the event of a disaster; and in general it's not clear why a prepper is more likely to survive than a small-scale farmer, given that the latter owns and regularly uses guns, produces food, is used to intermittent hardship and long days, lives in a rural area, and gets along with the government and their neighbours better.

korethr 8y ago
> Building a house doesn't cause a flood plain to flood (hopefully!), but adding lots of guns to a country sounds like it should have an effect on the number of revolutions, be it up or down. Intuition would imply that, but I'd say there's not enough data to really say. There's countries with less civilian firearm ownership than the US, older and younger both, with more frequent violent revolution, and less frequent violent revolution. There's too many differences in culture, demographics, economics, and probably other factors I'm not thinking of, that even if increased rates of firearm ownership had an effect on the number of revolutions, that effect is utterly swamped by other factors. Your latter paragraph seems to imply you have a different idea of what preppers do than I do. When I hear the word "prepper", I think of a person who stockpiles non-perishable foods, stockpiles ammo, owns multiple firearms and practices with them regularly, and drills both evacuation and hunkering-down scenarios with their family. I'm not sure where alienation of the neighbors enters in here, as nothing in preparing for a disaster requires or recommends having pre-established enemies living <100 feet in any direction from where you do.
wemdyjreichert 8y ago
> Building a house doesn't cause a flood plain to flood (hopefully!), but adding lots of guns to a country sounds like it should have an effect on the number of revolutions, be it up or down. As someone who lived in Houston during Harvey, you're dead wrong. Near where I lived used to be fields which soaked up water. Now it's concrete, which doesn't. You can tell the difference during heavy rains.

by strken 8y ago

korethr 8y ago

> Building a house doesn't cause a flood plain to flood (hopefully!), but adding lots of guns to a country sounds like it should have an effect on the number of revolutions, be it up or down. Intuition would imply that, but I'd say there's not enough data to really say. There's countries with less civilian firearm ownership than the US, older and younger both, with more frequent violent revolution, and less frequent violent revolution. There's too many differences in culture, demographics, economics, and probably other factors I'm not thinking of, that even if increased rates of firearm ownership had an effect on the number of revolutions, that effect is utterly swamped by other factors. Your latter paragraph seems to imply you have a different idea of what preppers do than I do. When I hear the word "prepper", I think of a person who stockpiles non-perishable foods, stockpiles ammo, owns multiple firearms and practices with them regularly, and drills both evacuation and hunkering-down scenarios with their family. I'm not sure where alienation of the neighbors enters in here, as nothing in preparing for a disaster requires or recommends having pre-established enemies living <100 feet in any direction from where you do.

wemdyjreichert 8y ago

> Building a house doesn't cause a flood plain to flood (hopefully!), but adding lots of guns to a country sounds like it should have an effect on the number of revolutions, be it up or down. As someone who lived in Houston during Harvey, you're dead wrong. Near where I lived used to be fields which soaked up water. Now it's concrete, which doesn't. You can tell the difference during heavy rains.