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According To Google Trends, What Is More Popular Than "Ammo"? "Bulk Ammo"
While "Fiscal Cliff" may be having its 15-minutes of fame - a la "Honey Boo Boo" or "Sneezing Panda" - there is one thing that has consistently been more and more searched in the last eight years. According to Google Trends, internet users are skipping just plain old simple "ammo" as a search query, and in a tried and true American tradition, confirm that size matters. The size of the ammo order that is, as can be confirmed by the following chart showing queries for "bulk ammo". What goes without saying, are the wavelike periodicities of the quantized jumps higher in popularity at select times over the past decade: they just happen to aggregate around a very specific event taking place each November every 4 years. At this rate by November 2016 we are going to need a bulkier chart...
(h/t @Not_Jim_Cramer)
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I haven't bought anything as small as a box of 20 in over three years.
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Every American needs to be aware of the threat levels on the homeland security advisory system [1]. Exploding firearm sales indicates an increased risk of domestic terrorism, and Americans need to be on red alert for suspicious activity. We're going to do a quick recap of each official security level, and what it means for you and your family. I strongly advise everybody here to make a note of these security levels, and be aware of the implications.
Threat Levels [2]
References
[1] Home Land Security System - http://www.dhs.gov/homeland-security-advisory-system
[2] Threat Levels - http://www.azein.gov/azein/Threat%20Advisory%20Docs/ThreatLevel.aspx
Can you help us with the color codes for "troll threat levels"?...
If MDB is posting, then the government troll threat is very high.
The Fatherland- Socialist/Nazi German
The Motherland - Communist Russia
The Homeland? – An Unspeakable Fascist Bastard crossbreed of the two above!
I wonder what the juxtaposition of search terms "fiscal cliff" vs "benghazi" is in the last month?
Remember BENGHAZI!!!
"bulk ammo" + Benghazi gets 10,800 results
Apparently the Terrorist Bankers feel threatened by our waking up to their demon worship and goat torturing parties
When reading some posts, sometimes it's hard to tell if someone is actually a troll, or is trying hard to play the part of a troll as a joke.
But the joke's ooooold. And a tip-off being that artificial intelligence tends to get frozen in time.
Finally, a trend I can believe in.
Poe's Law renders both useless.
Why concern yourself with trivialities. All you need know is, "Duck and Cover."
Gummint said so.
shit ....brown
Gee ... I did not realise there were any levels below orange.
Below orange was before FDR.
look out for waco 2, they are just itchin to drone sombody. hellfire missles bitchez
Wacos happen every single day when cops kill dogs, kill grandmothers, etc... violates basic constitutional rights and get no consequences.
That really rustles my jimmies.
Cops have dogs and grandmothers too. When things get bad enough there will be consequences.
MDB Awesome! Do you do stand up too? Where's your next appearance?
But always a risk
even if green
Is that what you are saying?
Ah yes, the neverending war on terror.
Ah yes, the neverending war on terror.
Well, yeah! The military industrial complex must be fed... and sheep never pay up unless they're scared.
The military industrial complex must be FED
There, Fixed it for ya
The only group worried about Guns and ammo are Sheeple
But New York democrats ran on women's rights, diversity, subsidizing unions, and sensible gun laws.
How did these New York democrats define sensible gun laws? In my experience Democrats define "sensible guns laws" to mean only the criminals, the politically connected, and the rich have guns.
MillionDollarBonus_
The threat levels are not from the public, its the agencies......................and BTW, the House passed an Immigration Reform Bill yesterday,on the way to the Senate.
No shit....................so that means the Mexican gvt gets its way, and big o also, No Border w/ Mehico..............I just wish Amelicans could have the same rights there, as they get here.
Red(severe)- She has been around the block a few times and the risk of disease is severe.
Orange(High)- There is a good chance if you get her high you can get a blow job.
Yellow (Elevated)- Blood pressure after taking the little blue pill.
Blue (Guarded)- Remain guarded when sneaking out in the morning after picking up a fat lady at closing time.
Green (low) - There is a low probability that MDB will be getting laid tonight.
You forgot another threat level:
Financial terrorist attacks are ongoing by Goldman Sachs and the FED. No body gives a damn about terroism except when guys like Cheney and the Saudis get together. Let me know when the NWO are up to something otherwise buzz off MDB.
it was aliens.
I mean it was Libertarians.
Fuck it - they're in cahoots!
libert-aliens - MeelionDollerBogus
The following Million Dollar Bonus Alert is FIRE ENGINE CODE RED, MOTHERFUCKERS !
Jesus. The Google IPO didn't kill this zombie bastard after all.
Resurrected as a Homeland Security web bot.
Where's the large can of Raid when you need it ?
Wish we could pull a chart from '94................would look almost identical.
That was before the age of teh Googlez.
Gopher time!
They come in just single boxes of 20?
LOOSE 30/50 CAL Cans FTW!!
Bulk Ammo bitchez!
Dillon 1050.
Spoken like an IPSC or IDPA shooter. :)
LNL-AP
Lee Classic Cast
Lee thigh master
the blue is true
I only get those Dillon catalogs for the articles.
What comes after Bulk?
Michael MOAR!
Length
The price discovery moment when you realize that "bulk" (ammo) is going to set you back some serious coin.
Yea but Copper Jacketed Lead is a precious metal. So it retains its value.
Yes. It. Does.
Fortunately, ammo places still accept fiat and pixels.
If you are on a budget, buy primers. You can always get brass and bullets. It usually isn't to difficult to get powder. Primers, sometimes can be a problem to obtain.
primers and a bullet mold. Become good friends with the local tire store so that he saves all the tire weights in 5 gallon buckets for you to later melt and cast into your caliber of choice. Become familar with your outdoor firing areas (BLM areas are popular) and go there in the early morning or dusk once per weekend and collect the brass many of the people leave behind because they were too lazy to police their brass. Learn how to handload and if you can afford it buy a dillon progressive reloader such as a 550. Buy powder monthly as part of your shopping trip. Make sure you buy a good battery operated digital scale to weigh your re-loads to make sure they are not to light or to heavy.
. . . and don't forget that cast lead boolits don't play nicely with gas-operated firearms.
Better get those wheel weights soon-all the new cars have been coming through with steel/zinc weights for at least a year.
My supplier said the companies making lead wheel weights will be switching to steel/zinc weights as the War on Lead continues and more states start banning them.
There is always the dollar-cost-averaging approach to buying ammo. Buy a few boxes every time you go to Walmart or your favorite ammo store, and before you know it you've got enough ammo to start a small war.
Freight Car
the government comes after bulk ammo.
If I really needed more than OMFG, then me and some buddies can always swing by the nearest branch of the Bank of DHS and make 10-ton withdrawals from the stash Janet has been conveniently building for the resourceful using taxpayer dollars.
Bulk reloading supplies. :)
Government witch hunts.
Pallet loads.
The whole nine yards.
Which takes about 3 seconds in your minigun, or about 25 in your M60.
Damn disgruntled Michigan militia terrorists are probably going to target the power grid with a gun.
Someone in Michigan could probably fart and it would knock my power out again.
It's still that bad ? Better take it easy on the beer tonight....you know how bad those beer farts are.
For once some encouraging news eh?
Really? Do the IP's trace back to government agencies like NOAA?
Long lead, in bullet-shaped ingots.
Recently my brother came calling bearing gifts. 100 lbs of bulk lead along with plenty of pictures and instructions.
<Get the lead out bro.>
Easy answer. After bulk ammo, comes pallet load ammo. Pallet load. Great investment. No paper equivalents. Market stays real as per value. Stored properly, never goes bad. I am shooting 8mm from the early twenties, almost no FTF's.
Unlike silver, it takes more than five dollars to dig it up out of the ground. Kudos to Million Dollar Bonus for the Zero Hedge Comment Of The Year.
Oh, yeah. P.S. After pallet load ammo, comes semi truck ammo, followerd by Ammo Train, and, ladst , but not least, Shipload of Combloc Country Surplus Ammo, my favorite.
It's not really "surplus"--they're just pre-staging it ahead of the invasion.
To the MSM and the brainwashed masses, a 50 round box is a "bulk" quantity.
Really, it's a total joke what the MSM counts as an "arsenal"; anything more than two weapons. Here in PA, a 50 firearm collection is small.
'Arsenal' is a fancy word for 'gun collection' in Texas.
Some prefer to call it "survival kit".
'Arsenal' is a fancy word for 'gun collection' in Texas.
To the MSM, and the goobers, it's a pistol, a revolver, and a rifle,and two shotguns,and over a 100rds of ammo(spread over the lawn)....................your Waco stocked.
When most Europeans hear the word "Arsenal" they think soccer.
Gunners. Actually they are shite this year.
'Gooners' to their rival teams fans:-)
Speaking of the brainwashed masses, I read an absolutely horrifying news story the other day.
The police raided a home and found guns and "hundreds of rounds of ammunition"!!!!!
Oh, the horror! I hope they toss him in jail and throw away the key.
(They probably found a brick of 22 LR.)
The question is not if you have (lots of) ammo, but are you willing to use it when needed.
You mean for barter? ;-)
"At the end of the transaction, one person is going to own both the gun and the gold." -- Unknown
Bulk ammo is going up but still swamped by ammo. http://www.google.com/trends/explore#q=ammo,%20bulk%20ammo
Edit: Strip LULA, very cool device.
+5.56 on strip LULA
love mine.. so easy, my 9 year old can help me reload :D
I'd say the question is who feels froggy and want to find out if I am or not?
Do it right, or roll 3d10 damage penalty.
Gary Gygax? Is that you?
The question is not if you have (lots of) ammo, but are you willing to use it when needed.
Or, "are you prepared to use it?"
Shooting a person is a damned ugly thing, and so contrary to nature as to be VERY difficult for nominally healthy individuals.
Tough talk is less than beneficial.
Shooting a person is a damned ugly thing, and so contrary to nature as to be VERY difficult for nominally healthy individuals.
Uh, not when it's YOU or them.
99% of normal folks would rather not, it's that 1% that screws everything up.
It's a hell of a thing, killing a man. I know because Clint says so
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3zKCIf-vfbc
Show up in my house at night uninvited and see how ugly it gets. Touch my wife, even uglier.
After years of hunting, you are just a slow moving two legged hog to me, buddy.
Your morals have zero place here. You are either a hunter, a friend or food in the new world.
Amen. A lot of internet warriors talk big about stacking and calibers and penetration and knock down power while all they have ever shot is paper. I've shot and killed more with a bb gun before age 10 than many of them ever will.
Fully agree about tough talk being less than beneficial. And I wasn't trying to do so if your comment was directed towards me.
But those who haven't even killed an animal, let alone a fellow human being, have no idea what they're getting into when they claim to own a gun for "self defense". Recently I had a discussion with someone who wanted to have a gun in order to "scare" away would be robbers and such. My response was simple.
If you are not ready and willing to actually use the gun don't even own one. If you are disarmed because you couldn't fire when you needed to, you will quickly be looking down the barrel of your very own weapon. And that person might not be so hesitant to fire. Worse, if you pull it out to try and scare someone away it might simply draw fire upon yourself. A lot of new gun owners are kidding themselves and they might just live to regret it.
Same thoughts apply to a knife by the way.
+10 to CD.
Someone who isn't fully prepared to shoot when necessary should skip the gun and consider something like pepper spray, a bright light, or maybe a taser if it's legal in your area.
I once asked my new Russian wife what Americans are good at, expecting something like Space Exploration, Music, or something similar. Without even blinking she said War.
We actually are very good at war. We watch it on TV and in the theater, our children play COD and Battlefield3 and a large number of our populace is armed to the teeth. Something another country would never consider doing.
Our ability to wage war is increasing, not decreasing. Even now we are removing the soft targets from the battlefield and soon, much like the nuclear weapon and biologics, automated warfare will just be too terrible to face.
I believe this is a good thing and not a bad thing. If the US and the West want to enjoy their lifestyle and consume the resources, they must be prepared to defend that. If not, then run away.
"...people sleep peacefully in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf."
Richard Grenier
Those who are not prepared to kill live at the sufferance of those who are.
Absolutely. I'd go so far as to say that everyone planning on having a gun should shoot a large game animal (and be forced to skin/gut/dress the animal) before thinking about shooting a human in self defense. The damage done, blood trail, and disintegrated vital organs tend to give one a completely different perspective on the responsibility of gun ownership and the perils of firearms. I'm guessing that buck fever is next to nothing compared to when you're in a real shooting situation against a fellow human, but at least it's better than nothing (armchairing/mallninjaing the shit out of the internet).
It's also a good time to bring up the necessity of proper drilling/practice for shooting situations... practice, practice, practice... and practice as close to as possible as a realistic shooting situation. Tap/rack drills... mag dumps... magazine changes... unholstering... checking to ensure no background dangers or bystanders...
Very true--killing is less about the tools, and more about the mental process. You have to be a very deliberate person. You have to be able to work through the initial adrenaline dump and not shut down. People have to be trained how to react in violent situations, very few people naturally react with overwhelming violence when called upon to do so. And before anyone complains that I'm talking out of my ass, I'm not saying I'm good at fighting at all--I've been in a couple of fights my whole life and they didn't go that well. I do have significant firearms training, and I don't ever seriously use phrases such as "press the trigger" or "brain pan" so I have that going for me as well.
Let's put it this way. Of the few (very few) good people I know who can be counted on and who I believe would fight to the death for their principles, not one of them would brag about it. By way of analogy, how many fourth degree black belts do you see bragging about kicking ass?
Talk is cheap. Before you scream, "You can pry them from my cold, dead hands" watch "The Pianist" and see how the line in the sand keeps moving.
Very few people even know where their line is drawn much less walk the walk when someone steps over it.
Fully agree about tough talk being less than beneficial. And I wasn't trying to do so if your comment was directed towards me.
No, not directed towards you at all, CD. I just wanted to inject some reality. It concerns me that all these guys talk like a galactic scale hardass and don't really know what is involved.
The guys who have done the worst stuff in war do NOT talk that way - they try to forget it.
In Gettyburg they found rifles with five cartridges in them. In WWII almost fifty percent of infantrymen never fired their weapons. The number of rifles never fired in combat has remained fairly constant for generations.
People cannot naturally kill each other. Armies have to be drilled over and over before some of hem can do it.
Gold, silver, lead, brass: the four precious metals that belong in every preparedness portfolio.
Stupid. How many gunfights does anyone think they will win?
Depends on how many you have been in I guess. I see lots of veterans still out of work. What? You still believe there really are no trained professionals in this line of work? Pretty dangerous thinking for a country that has been at "war" perpetually since the late 50's.
Full discloser; I am long black markets and personal security companies.
Don't forget all those people that have paint ball training. It's a small step up from paint ball to lead ball.
Unless you step in front of that lead ball.
I own an armed security agency in the Phoenix Arizona area but my phone hasn't been ringing off the hook yet for personal protection. Then again if things get that bad protecting other peoples asses(t)s is probably the last thing I or my guys will be thinking about. I and they will be to busy protecting my family and theirs.
That being said it is our monthly gun show this weekend at the fairgrounds and after last weekends practice session with my guys I need to go replenish 5,000 rounds. Got to test my new AK-47 draco pistol, all I can say was that was alot of fun shooting. Much different experience shooting that versus a standard AK. BTW-we save our brass for reloading and wait until it is a crappy weather weekend to reload on our dillon progressive reloader.
If the SHTF the wealthy are going to be in for a big surprise when they find out their money won't be buying them any protection.
How do you reload steel-cased ammo for that Draco?
it will use brass just fine too. The steel case stuff is less expensive.
with .223 platforms, it's the anti-rust varnish on the straight walled case that causes fits, esp in AR platforms.
To reload steel case it's the same as brass, you won't get nearly as many reloads out of it before it stress fails and cracks as you would a brass case though.
Me personally I have never even tried to re-load 7.62 steel casings as I get too nervous about the case possibly failing. Maybe if I was handloading versus progressive but not sure I want to even spend the money on a die set to see. My son is 14 and has been relaoding for about five years so once he gets the dillon set up he is pretty good running a couple hundred .223 per hour if his friend is with him. By himself about 100 HR but still not bad. We stockpile most of our reloads as I use the company expense to buy the factory ammo and save the brass for my personal ammo collection after re-loading. Win-win and uncle sam doesn't know how much he saves me by me keeping the company brass..lol..and a little powder and primers from the company does somehow end up in my collection..lol
My guys shoot quarterly and each guy shoots 300 rounds of duty and 500 rounds of AR. I have to recertify them with the state annually so me being a state certified firearms instructor that helps offest my expense not having to send them to somebody else for the recert. State requires 170 minimum score out of 250 for re-cert I require 220 from them or they can't work for me. They get one re-try.
Steel cased loads the same as brass or nickel plated. Check out Youtube as there are a few videos talking about reloading in general, and reloading steel cased in particular. Threre are discussion threads about reloading the aluminum cased ammo as well.
You don't but we do re-load plenty of 5.56 for the Colt AR-15's we carry in our vehicles. We carry either the Glock22/23 or Colt 1911 as our duty weapon and my backup is a Ruger .38 LCR, my back-up to my back-up is a Barreta Tomcat .32 and if I need something after that I am relying on my feet. We have dies to reload all the major calibers from .223 to .45. Even my personal .30 M1 Carbine :) The Draco is an interesting handgun (barely qualified as a handgun) and I definately had some fun shooting it last weekend. To bad I can't legally put a foregrip on it.
Well, you can always buy one for it now. Once the balloons go up, I don't think there will be many people interested in discussing the fine points of 922-r.
Prudence dictates that stockpiling gold and food is pointless if one has no way of keeping it.
that's what the Brit's thought also.
I'm thinking I'll win at least one more than you.
Without a gun, absolutely zero. With a gun, maybe one or two. Best used as a deterrent.
You live near a Walmart by any chance?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8O6IMYSSs7c&feature=em-share_video_user
Wow. We are so fucked.
Stupid. You just going to salve your chubby little ass when they start kicking in the door?
The answer to your feeble, mantyhose-wearing question is AS FUCKING MANY AS I HAVE TO.
Just surviving one with all my family and shit intact would be good enough.
Guilty, guilty, guilty.
Though I don't do Ooogle searches for it.
After a while, one takes the hint that it's just there, and then searches their collected vendors for price and avialability.
I note that after a long period of down trending prices, that prices seem now trending higher.
And worth noting much of the ammo is on back order:
http://www.sportsmansguide.com/net/browse/ammo-rifle-22-ammo.aspx?c=96&s...
Yep... ammo and bolt carrier groups...
The price on m855 has freaking skyrocketed, waiting on that shit to go down... can still get 1000 rounds of decent new brass cased 55 gr for ~$300-325 delivered... At least the AKs like to eat steel cased ammo... and thank god for aguila...
Gold, Silver and Lead
The trivium of precious metals. Physically posses them all. Delivery methods may vary.
LEADnBRASS
extra lead is useful, but in and of itself it's not precious
I love it when the UPS guy has to use a hand truck to haul all of the boxes with UN small munitions ordinance stamps all over them up to my door.
You know what's even better feeling than that?
When the UPS guy is so used to dropping off ammo that when he has you sign for a 50lb package the size of a couple shoeboxes, he says "more ammo for you today" when the return label is from Tulving.
The UPS guys are Teamsters and they love O. I would not want UPS guys knowing all my business.
The ptb have disease weapons, microwave beams, drones etc... good luck with bullets-- There are plenty of teenagers blasting music you can use the ammo on though
Yeah, Afghanistan has been a cake walk with all that stuff. That war lasted what, like two weeks?
NBC ordnance has not been used in Afghanistan.
Remind me how long it took Japan to capitulate after attack with two VERY low-yield (by today's standards), very primitive nuclear weapons??
If TPTB really desire your demise, they will easily obtain their desired result. They DO "have the technology", you DONT.
Simple as that.
Power grid, gas grid, oil grid, rail grid... all these "grid" thingys- what happens if these grids cease transmitting effectively between point A and point B and what are the consequences, Fuku'd & FUBAR at Diablo Canyon?
Why all the concern about the peasant States' ability to secure their WMD stockpiles, and less concern for the established powers' ability to secure their larger, more numerous and more distributed stockpiles- preventing Fattah Younis goes to Minot?
The whole "war on terror" can be incompletely reduced to preventing the devolution of MAD from psychopathic State players to psychopaths without State authority.
It is one thing to have it, yet to execute, is another reality. We are conditioned to watch violence, and to get our violence out through the tube I.E NCIS to the NFL. To act out or defend with violence, is of course an "act of terrorism".
Now go reread your Patriot Act, and dad will let you stay up tonight.
”In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.“ -- George Orwell
While a handgun or shotgun for personal defense makes sense, the whole notion of arming and defending a bunker is stupid. You will have to sleep. It will be found out that you have a horde and those with nothing will seek you out. You cannot base a plan upon bunker defense.
Assuming the world would even be a place you would want to be alive in post apocalypse...after the nuke plants melt down etc....your best chance is to become highly mobile and highly invisible. Standing some ground and shooting every intruder is a fail. They searched "bulk ammo" too.
And you need team.
There was this story from gang member, who survived war in Bosnia.
1. Every night, a new place to sleep. EVERY.
2. Carry food and guns, and sleep in places which are hard to reach. Like second floor with destroyed access to it.
3. Shoot first, check later for loot.
4. No prisoners, too much trouble. Anybody who surrenders is killed after battle is over.
+ 7.62x39 sir.
Throw away your Mort D'Artur and read up on the eastern front in '44. That's a good primer.
I wish you the best of luck with your survival strategy. Mobile and invisible.
Good luck finding safe water on a consistent basis, or where you going to pack around a water purifier?
Good luck finding food on a consistent basis. You might find meat occasionally, if youre willing to eat human, but what are you going to do for your other dietary needs? Pack it around?
Good luck staying warm and dry in the winter, or where you going to pack around a tent and a sleeping bag? Build a fire maybe?
Good luck dealing with other mobile and invisible humans that you run into. They might be armed. Perhaps youll have to carry around a weapon and some bulk ammo?
So, yeah, good luck staying mobile and invisible with all that stuff youll need to survive stapped to your back.
As for me, after much thought, Im going to stay in my bunker. The bad guys have to come to me which gives me the advantage. I have food, they wont. I will be warm and dry, they wont. In fact, I think Ill probably end up seeing a LOT of people that had your idea for survival. :)
Wish me luck dealing with people like you.
i never said it would be easy but you prop your eyes open with toothpicks ok and see how long your ramparts last
Or you just sleep in shifts, duh.
So, if your all stashed in your bunker, I seem to have quite the advantage don't I?
1. "Pool chlorine" + old battery acid via your air supply inlet http://www.ehow.com/about_6521382_sulfuric-acid-chlorine-bleach-reaction.html
2. The "old faithful" against armoured immobile targets - the Molotov Cocktail, or for the adventurous - DIY flamethrower http://www.techeblog.com/index.php/tech-gadget/7-awesome-diy-flamethrowers
3. The effective psychological weapon - liquefied faeces, and / or blood projected into your bunker.
All demonstrably effective means of assault. All mentioned in former SAS Manuals too, with a whole load more methods of "unconventional warfare"
Wish YOU luck, 'cause despite your guns'n'ammo, YOU are the one who will be needing it once the "more imaginative" assailants start to become the dominant predator group (which they obviously will, and quite quickly too).
You apparently read too much internet, and not enough reality. Not one of those tactics would successfully breech an actual bunker or properly constructed shelter.
Of course you would have to live long enough to find Hard Harry Homeowner's Holdout Bunker, while fending off the other predator groups, and depleting finite supplies with rapidly diminishing resupply options.
There aren't any good options. But without the foundation of a base of operations, you are dependent upon either the unlikely kindness of strangers or savagery.
You act like it would be your bunker against the entire govt. The whole point of the 2nd is that the people retain the means (and arms) to remove a unjust government.
Example, the first time that the govt goes to actually grab someone's guns in my neck of the woods (the Dirty South aka Texas) I know a bunch of angry guys will show up. Because they know that they will be next.
The government really needs to worry about is this nice highway system that leads right to DC. Yeah you can block it a bit, but it really seems like a nice thing the South coulda used back in 1860 :)
Dude, Waco? The only folks who "showed up" were the ones slaughtering women and babies...
Do0d, seriously? The guy isolated himself and his clan - almost tailor-made as an example for the gov't to use.
Yup, and since they were a crazy cult no one cared when the .gov came by to...take their guns and kill the women and children.
"Crazy cult" is part of the fostering of isolation. What defines a "crazy cult"? Hell, I define people who still watche TV as a crazy cult. Then there's the denizens of DC - now there's a nasty cult for ya.
I don't disagree. What I disagree with is the idea that some sort of revolutionary action will be taken when the government starts with tyranny in earnest. If confiscation of weapons were to be a "tipping point" as the commenter I was replying to seemed to imply, then it would have already happened after Waco or Katrina. The only hope is that the government simply implodes, because we will be far too busy fighting each other to take up a united action any time soon. My two cents, adjusted for inflation.
everyone's a human, being - then along comes someone to re-define your reality so as to impose their reality.
and teh govs are like the angry, jealous god(s) - no reality before MINE.
edit: we posted at the same time Chump (heyas), so I'll add, IMO the "confiscating of guns" most likely won't be a large scale effort, those who write the script are probably hoping the guns will be used laterally, thus outing the gun-holders, and then local LEO's and equivalent can just go shopping for new stuff at the Target'd location whenever they like. . .
Back at ya. You're right. A large scale attempt would only serve as a rallying point for the rabble, and it would be unnecessary anyway. As always, take care.
and you, & those small folks just learning how to name their environs. . . always remember, the things & places came first, and someOne named them after - words shape reality, if those descriptions don't work, re-name & re-frame - no fear!
"As for me, after much thought, Im going to stay in my bunker. The bad guys have to come to me which gives me the advantage. I have food, they wont. I will be warm and dry, they wont. In fact, I think Ill probably end up seeing a LOT of people that had your idea for survival. :)"
It was proven to be totally fail strategy, again in Bosnia.
You need to get rid of shit, you need to renew your supplies unless you have something like 5 year supply (extremely unlikely).
Besides your house can be burnt down with quite good chances of killing you in process.
Oh, and most bunkers rely on electricity. Good luck running that generator forever.
They will not come for you, they will wait outside targetting your door. Maybe even with homemade molotov or grenade, to clean room and loot it later.
Bosnia this aint. Read up on your history, no one kills like we do. You really think we'll just let the leeches crawl out of the cities with impunity? Let them steal the freshly baked apple pies cooling on the windowsills?