Quote Originally Posted by SSChameleon View Post
If it's economic it will not turn anarchy overnight. It will take at least a few weeks if not months...Looking back at the great depression and what happens when other country's economies collapsed it is unlikely that I would bug out. More than likely my business would contract but still run and I could move to a gated community or get an alarm for the house and stay put. When the economy goes south crime goes up drastically but even in Russia and Argentina no one turned into zombies.
What is different about America today than during the depression, and different from those other countries is that hardly anyone has any 'real life' skills here any more. Very few people know how to hunt or gather their own food any more, know how to fix and fabricate things. I think things will start to unravel very quickly as people get hungry and desperate.