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Originally posted by Bluegill

I currently live in a small apartment and really don't have the room even if I wanted to. I do usually have about a month's supply.

I'm not 100% sold on the idea that if SHTF we will have a Mad Max scenario, or anything even remotely close.

If by chance that did happen, the bunker mentality is the one that will get you killed. I will want to be highly mobile to get out of troubles way.

Good luck moving you're 1 year hoard on an hours notice. I don't care how many guns and ammo you have. When the pillaging anarchist gangs come calling, you will be out numbered, and you're gonna die. You will take some with you, but you're gonna die. Then they will take your hoard.

But long before that happens, the government will start rationing and passing anti hoarding legislation. Along with PM and firearm confiscation. They will set up check points and make you document and justify your every movement. Financial transactions will be electronic only by mandate.

They will label you a terrorist and treat you accordingly (remember Waco..?) if you don't cooperate.

They will pit neighbor against neighbor to expose those who disobey. Or worse, use our children against us. Much like the government is already using children to expose their parents if a gun is in the house (Obama Youth..?).

We will all get rounded up and "saved" by being placed in a REX 84 camp long before the Mad Max scenario arrives.

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And what if we AREN'T carted away WTSHTF?? Bottom line, answer this question: What's more important than spending money right now while you can on stuff you'll need to survive but would be totally screwed if you didn't have? I can't think of a single necessity I'd neglect if I had the means to get it to go off instead blowing my hard-earned FRNs on stuff that won't keep me alive. If there's anything more important--I'm not saying more "fun," I'm saying more IMPORTANT--to spend FRNs on right now than food, ammo and other preps, I'd like to know what those things are.

EDIT: Bluegill, I'm not meaning to single you out, so please don't take offense, but there are a lot of other people who seem content to put off preparing for TSHTF, so I started this thread for discussion on what's more important than preparing just to help dredge up arguments against preparing. Please don't take offense, I'm not targeting you with this thread, in fact I'm glad you maybe opened up a can of worms that needs to be dealt with but that a lot of people are ignoring:

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