Survivalist boards online are always abuzz with end-time scenarios about what will happen when the grid goes down. For many Americans, the notion of being without power, water, and a constant source of food and supplies is frightening. An entire industry has sprung up that includes solar power backups, survival gardening, and home defense.
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.
In fact, one must anticipate many travelers to be armed themselves. A person who would not have intended any harm will suddenly become a dangerous enemy in the face of an aggressor firing upon them needlessly. This would be a ridiculous tragedy which can be easily avoided if cooler heads are able to prevail.
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.
In fact, one must anticipate many travelers to be armed themselves. A person who would not have intended any harm will suddenly become a dangerous enemy in the face of an aggressor firing upon them needlessly. This would be a ridiculous tragedy which can be easily avoided if cooler heads are able to prevail.
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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