oi!
this is going to be tldr for people--i'm still going to share it...
...food, batteries, medical supplies, etc....shit’s just common sense to keep stocked and stored--fuck, providing one’s situation and budget permits it...of course. the people i see saying shit like “people are idiots for not stocking up” are also idiots for simplistically forgetting the circumstances in which so many people live...for instance, how many people live paycheck to paycheck, had to wait to their biweekly direct deposit came in, when SO MUCH CHANGED IN THIS COUNTRY FROM MONDAY OF LAST WEEK TO SUNDAY OF LAST WEEK.
i'm fortunate...there’s a shit-ton of humility and old-school mentality in my family--i’m grateful to say--so that multiple generations live under one roof, and it’s quite symbiotic right now.
all of that said, i’m going to go ahead and repeat what i shared in the “Last Thing You Bought” thread because i think it's important to stress in this country right now how your first line of defense is simply you--just added a Bushnell TRS-25 red-dot to my Palmetto State Armory AKV chambered in 9mm:
i don’t get the sense behind “preparing” for bad, large-scale
fractures to occur in American society, and not having the resources to defend what you store, and those you hold dear--and in this latter category, i absolutely include friends and neighbors, and not just immediate family. there’s over 5,000 rounds of ammunition in our home, including 1000s of rounds 7.62x39, 1000s of rounds of 9mm, hundreds of round of that sweet Winchester “military grade” 00 buck, etc., all of which i hope and pray that i NEVER have to use in defense of what little me and
mines have, but what i'm glad to say we have stored next to all kinds of canned foods nonetheless.
in my humble opinion, the only thing worse than
not having guns if they are needed, is having them and not having enough ammo--other than lack of funds, i don't get owning weapons and not correspondingly storing ample amounts of ammo and magazines.
ok, good people, go ahead and "kook" away--today isn't bad here, i'm grateful to say...i've spent most of the day adjusting my syllabi to this new "remote" form of teaching, and i think i have Zoom down, which is how both universities i teach at want me to teach classes for the rest of the semester...
...i hope you are safe and well.