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One way to approach answering this question is looking at history. Do individual people with a nice stockpile and contemporary weapons tend to survive the colla
by stfp 4y ago
One way to approach answering this question is looking at history. Do individual people with a nice stockpile and contemporary weapons tend to survive the collapse of their civilizations (or even local, short-term famines for that matter)? I don't think so. For example, in Europe the social/physical structures that successfully faced these situations were walled cities & towns. Castles. Entire communities and decades of planning and construction.
IMO, no way this scales down to a single household - I'm chuckling right now picturing a knight and their family in a house-sized castle.
Another angle: if things get bad even just food wise, people who have nothing to lose will keep coming - starving people who will die unless they get to your resources.
To me prepping to survive by yourself is a dumb fantasy and a waste of resources that would be much better spent building resilient communities.
- delecti 4y agoAre there instances of individual people (or small families) with stockpiles of weaponry in civilizations that collapsed? Yes, as you point out, there are historical nobles with armed guards in their castle/fort/estate, or just cities with militias, but I don't know of anything historically comparable to a modern prepper with a dozen guns and thousands of rounds for them. And even if there were, no amount of swords makes 1-5 people a match for a couple dozen assailants, but 1-5 people with loaded guns are much more of a deterrent. And I agree that a community spending their time and resources working together is likely way more effective, but that doesn't mean the prepper's stockpile is easy pickings.
- foogazi 4y ago> IMO, no way this scales down to a single household - I'm chuckling right now picturing a knight and their family in a house-sized castle. You just have to outlast them Do you want to be killed by the 1st zombie or the 20th ? Only way to survive is to delay death