Social Unrest: What is your plan?

[Zundfolge]

However, I think that there are more non-firearm-owning-pacifist liberals in my neighborhood.

Someone has to cook the meals, clean the latrines and do the hard labor (at gunpoint if necessary)


Thing is there's different levels of "Social Unrest".

If we're talking about some riots in "that part of town" well, I'm far enough away from "that part of town" that I'm not worried about it spilling over here ... and if it does then I live in a valley with many other armed people and we can block off our neighborhood much like what was described by another poster happening in New Orleans.

If we're talking about serious wide spread but likely short term and recoverable unrest (like a month or so), then it may be a little tougher but I still think we're pretty safe where we are (and again, my original point was the same as the 3 rules of Real Estate; location, location, location.)

Now if we're talking about full scale TEOTWAWKI, end of western civilization, brave new Mad Max like world ... well honestly I have no intention of surviving in that world. I still want to live in a world where America is America (yeah, that may have already come to an end) we have electricity and internet and indoor plumbing and a basically functioning society. I have no interest in going all Road Warrior or Book of Eli or Damnation Alley here. So if it comes to that I'm euthanizing the pets and then wreaking havoc of the nearest leftists (whom I blame for all this mess) until I get put down. This final possibility seems pretty unlikely to me (especially since such a thing would likely be started by a nuclear war ... which I don't expect anyone in The Springs to survive the first few minutes of).

[rbeau30]

Unfortunately, for the time being I am stuck in this location. I live overall in a nice part of town. But if this job ever goes south I may have to downsize. So I don't think a better residence location is currently in my near future.

I'm with you. If they don't or can't pick up a firearm and pull the trigger in defense of themselves or other folks, then they can pick up a shovel or do other tasks.

[HoneyBadger]

Thing is there's different levels of "Social Unrest".

If we're talking about some riots in "that part of town" well, I'm far enough away from "that part of town" that I'm not worried about it spilling over here ... and if it does then I live in a valley with many other armed people and we can block off our neighborhood much like what was described by another poster happening in New Orleans.

If we're talking about serious wide spread but likely short term and recoverable unrest (like a month or so), then it may be a little tougher but I still think we're pretty safe where we are (and again, my original point was the same as the 3 rules of Real Estate; location, location, location.)

Nailed it with "Location, Location, Location"

Unless there is some weird uprising against the upper-middle class, gainfully-employed Briargate area, I think I'm pretty safe from this type of thing. I can't imagine a situation where rioters would be coming into my neighborhood (short of the end of western civilization), but if they did, there is only 1 road in, and the whole neighborhood has 1/2 mile of open field all around it - pretty easily defensible.

Now, I'm moving to CA in 3 weeks (against my will, trust me), but the house we bought there is in a similar neighborhood, surrounded by farm fields, and several miles from the "bad" part of the small town that it is in. It'll be tough to get a feel for my neighbors there because people are afraid to openly talk about guns, and I suspect people probably don't openly talk about preps or anything like that with their new neighbors either. Time will tell. I'll be sure to report back to this subforum in a month or two with some feedback. I suspect that there are a lot prepared individuals in the area we are moving to (right between LA and San Fran), but I don't know who my neighbors will be. I think the statist chokehold and progressive policies have forced the gun industry and shooters to be much more resourceful in CA than the rest of the country, and places like Ares Armor and their middle finger to the ATF are encouraging.

[SG1]

Someone has to cook the meals, clean the latrines and do the hard labor (at gunpoint if necessary)


Thing is there's different levels of "Social Unrest".

If we're talking about some riots in "that part of town" well, I'm far enough away from "that part of town" that I'm not worried about it spilling over here ... and if it does then I live in a valley with many other armed people and we can block off our neighborhood much like what was described by another poster happening in New Orleans.

If we're talking about serious wide spread but likely short term and recoverable unrest (like a month or so), then it may be a little tougher but I still think we're pretty safe where we are (and again, my original point was the same as the 3 rules of Real Estate; location, location, location.)

Now if we're talking about full scale TEOTWAWKI, end of western civilization, brave new Mad Max like world ... well honestly I have no intention of surviving in that world. I still want to live in a world where America is America (yeah, that may have already come to an end) we have electricity and internet and indoor plumbing and a basically functioning society. I have no interest in going all Road Warrior or Book of Eli or Damnation Alley here. So if it comes to that I'm euthanizing the pets and then wreaking havoc of the nearest leftists (whom I blame for all this mess) until I get put down. This final possibility seems pretty unlikely to me (especially since such a thing would likely be started by a nuclear war ... which I don't expect anyone in The Springs to survive the first few minutes of).

Mind if I join you in your quest to rid the human race of these parasites?

[Zundfolge]

Mind if I join you in your quest to rid the human race of these parasites?

I think you'd have a hard time getting here from LV should things take such a turn ... that said my brother lives in Vegas so you can join him if you like

We have plenty of improvements that could be made for the security of our home, but it's a much finer line than I realized between 'security' and 'trap'. Am I overthinking this?

I'm thinking some sort of quickly deploy-able extra security measures would be a good idea. Something you keep stored in the basement or garage only to be deployed if the S hits the F. Something along the lines of a complete set of bars for the windows that you could install within a couple hours.

Another option might be steel shutters like folk in hurricane country use.

That way in times of peace you're not making it harder to escape a burning house nor interfere with the FD doing their job.

[HoneyBadger]

I think you'd have a hard time getting here from LV should things take such a turn ... that said my brother lives in Vegas so you can join him if you like


I'm thinking some sort of quickly deploy-able extra security measures would be a good idea. Something you keep stored in the basement or garage only to be deployed if the S hits the F. Something along the lines of a complete set of bars for the windows that you could install within a couple hours.

Another option might be steel shutters like folk in hurricane country use.

That way in times of peace you're not making it harder to escape a burning house nor interfere with the FD doing their job.

We all need some "I Am Legend" style metal shutters that deploy at the push of a button.