A few months ago I was having a conversation with a few guys from a gun club I belong to. The conversation started off about hunting. I had just gone spring turkey hunting that morning, and I was telling them about the hunt. Well, since you asked, the hunt wasn’t successful for me, but my Father and his business partner each got one. I still had a good time though.Anyways, the conversation turned into a conversation about self-reliance, and situations where we couldn’t rely on the government, or anyone else to provide us with the essentials. For example, a situation was brought up that mirrored the big August 2003 New York power outage. The situation went like this: what if the power outage wasn’t an accident, but rather a simultaneous terrorist attack on the nation’s power supply and main supply routes to heavily populated areas (i.e. bridges, tunnels, etc.)? How would people in this situation survive more than a few days or a week? Think about the amount of food in your house right now. Now take out all the perishable items, such as milk, frozen goods and anything else that needs to be kept cold (they would go bad rather quickly). There’s probably not a whole lot left is there? So you say to yourself, well I’ll just go down to the store and pick up some more food. Well don’t think that you’re the first person to come up with that brain child. The stores will be empty by the end of day one, and the main supply routes are shut off – meaning no food is coming in.
The only way you’re going to continue to get food for the short term is by doing what our ancestors did before the days of Super Stop & Shops. You’d have to go out and get it yourself. Hunting and gathering is what you’d have to get used to. Let’s face it; the government isn’t going to be anywhere near as prepared as they were for Hurricane Katrina. There won’t be any shelters set up or food flown in before this attack.
This lack of food and supplies also means that there will be looting, just like in New Orleans. Although this time they won’t be stealing a 52″ plasma TV, they’ll be going house to house looking for food (remember the stores are already wiped out). This will make it crucial for all the locals to have a way to protect themselves. New Orleans saw gangs of looters, rapists and thugs breaking into anywhere that had anything of value. The few law abiding citizens who stayed behind decided that something had to be done. Several neighborhoods set up civilian patrols to protect their homes and those of their neighbors. These patrols effectively deterred the gangs, sending them to more unprotected areas – unprotected because of the inability of the government to protect.
The astonishing part about all of this though is that when it came time for the forced evacuation of the city, police were confiscating all firearms, even if they were legally owned. Think about it. The police were evacuating the city in the name of safety, but at the same time they were taking away the most crucial tool to preserve life. They weren’t helping these people, and as a matter of fact they could have been signing their death warrants.
The bottom line is this. We have to learn to be self-reliant, including knowing how to hunt, fish, build a fire, and the hundreds of other things that your everyday American wouldn’t have a clue how to do. This means that we shouldn’t expect Uncle Sam (or in this case Mayor Nagin) to hold our hands when we come across hard times.
When talking about Hurricane Katrina and the incident in New Orleans, Wayne LaPierre said “The lesson of New Orleans is that citizens must be able to rely on their own ability to survive. The answer once and for all to politicians, who say Americans don’t need the Second Amendment, because government will protect you, can be summed up by saying ‘New Orleans.'”
Remember this the next time you talk to a person who is anti-hunting/guns, and tell them that they better not come knocking on your door when they need food or protection.
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