Many Americans would identify themselves as survivalists, and there are numerous online communities where they share advice on the topic. It frightens us to imagine life without the comforts of electric lights and central air. People have capitalized on this and created an industry based on food stockpiles, survival gardening, and self defense when the grid goes down.
Unfortunately, many people become militant in their thinking when it comes to what they regard as an apocalypse. Television shows have convinced us that there will be zombies to kill, or bands of unscrupulous individuals bent on death and destruction. Gun owners create stockpiles of weapons based on the assumption that trespassers will come, and they must kill or be killed.
Some level of panic will always govern the behavior of some humans in a crisis, but the panic only worsens when people hear gunshots. For those who are not run out of their homes, firing upon a crowd of trespassers without knowing who they are or what they want is unforgivable. Things only become worse when each and every human approaching is regarded as an enemy.
A survivalist knows that governments, law enforcement agencies, and militia are not necessarily going to be there to help them. However, this does not mean that every person, or group of people, who wander into their territory are there to harm them. Most people, given a choice, will help one-another in these situations, just as they did during the Great Depression and just after both great wars.
Those who are armed have a responsibility to know who or what they are shooting at, no matter the circumstances surrounding them. As a rule, people will travel in family groups, and pose no threat to anyone they meet. Shooting at strangers simply because they wandered into your yard is never an acceptable behavior.
A group of hungry people becomes much less dangerous to one another once everyone has been fed. The chances of a collapse lasting so long that one family feeding another results in their starvation is extremely slim. Wars and natural disasters always have the potential to create refugees, but being homeless does not automatically make someone an enemy.
Traveling groups of refugees are also quite likely to have armed members within their ranks as well. Should a family group begin firing upon refugees without first asking them to state their business, they may find they have made matters much worse for themselves and their loved ones. Should a group of travelers refuse to state who they are and why they are there, then deadly measures may be called for at that time, but not before.
When a group of refugees is taken in and fed, it grants an opportunity to find out what kinds of skills or assets they might be able to bring to your table. How we handle crisis situations can define us as people, and it is important what history says about us. Rather than seeing a group as an unnecessary group of refugees, one might take the perspective that they are the start of an independent community.
Unfortunately, many people become militant in their thinking when it comes to what they regard as an apocalypse. Television shows have convinced us that there will be zombies to kill, or bands of unscrupulous individuals bent on death and destruction. Gun owners create stockpiles of weapons based on the assumption that trespassers will come, and they must kill or be killed.
Some level of panic will always govern the behavior of some humans in a crisis, but the panic only worsens when people hear gunshots. For those who are not run out of their homes, firing upon a crowd of trespassers without knowing who they are or what they want is unforgivable. Things only become worse when each and every human approaching is regarded as an enemy.
A survivalist knows that governments, law enforcement agencies, and militia are not necessarily going to be there to help them. However, this does not mean that every person, or group of people, who wander into their territory are there to harm them. Most people, given a choice, will help one-another in these situations, just as they did during the Great Depression and just after both great wars.
Those who are armed have a responsibility to know who or what they are shooting at, no matter the circumstances surrounding them. As a rule, people will travel in family groups, and pose no threat to anyone they meet. Shooting at strangers simply because they wandered into your yard is never an acceptable behavior.
A group of hungry people becomes much less dangerous to one another once everyone has been fed. The chances of a collapse lasting so long that one family feeding another results in their starvation is extremely slim. Wars and natural disasters always have the potential to create refugees, but being homeless does not automatically make someone an enemy.
Traveling groups of refugees are also quite likely to have armed members within their ranks as well. Should a family group begin firing upon refugees without first asking them to state their business, they may find they have made matters much worse for themselves and their loved ones. Should a group of travelers refuse to state who they are and why they are there, then deadly measures may be called for at that time, but not before.
When a group of refugees is taken in and fed, it grants an opportunity to find out what kinds of skills or assets they might be able to bring to your table. How we handle crisis situations can define us as people, and it is important what history says about us. Rather than seeing a group as an unnecessary group of refugees, one might take the perspective that they are the start of an independent community.
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