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Gold and silver are just shiny metals. Guns for hunting are fine. Guns for protection from people are not nearly as useful as gun sellers say. In a crisis, peo
by jonathankoren 8y ago
Gold and silver are just shiny metals.
Guns for hunting are fine. Guns for protection from people are not nearly as useful as gun sellers say. In a crisis, people don’t turn into ravenous hordes, instead they ban together and help each other. Again, and again this shows up across times and cultures.
- onetimemanytime 8y agoOK, I understand the angry, hungry hordes. But if you're far away in NM or Idaho you might not experience that. Still, better to have the guns than not have them. If you have them, you get to decide. If they're a 200 people rushing you're toast, but if it's a small group you have a chance. Plus you decide the hiding place /bunker, if it's seen from far away or not. Gold and silver...the idea is that people might start trade eventually and other than tools /guns gold and silver it is.
- jonathankoren 8y agoMy point is that that angry hungry hordes don't occur anywhere. The galaxy brain trading commodity from the prepper forums is "balistic wampum", which is just a fancy way of saying "bullets", specifically bullets in common calibers. It's galaxy brain because these same forums are talking about how you need 5 different guns to protect yourself from the ravenous cannibal that used to be your neighbor. So who are you going to trade with? That's right, the ravenous cannibal that used to be your neighbor!