VikingPrepper
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Would anyone try the TWD/FTWD kind of things and start communities? If so, please explain how you would do it.
What would you do if...
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no,,,,if you are fighting back and someone gets caught they will spill their guts to save their own ###,,,,,,,
VikingPrepper
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I think if SHTF and government fallen, I would try the TWD/FTWD theme and have different communities. I would maybe add more to the community aspect by creating a common form of currency to use between the communities to buy goods. Maybe assign people to certain jobs and they get paid a certain amount per day for that job. What do you guys think?
I would defend my little piece and hit and run against the invaders.
Brent S
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I think currency would be a down the road thing. I think Most would want to band together for the food and security in the early stages. No one knows for sure how things would play out though. I do think that mankind has an aggressive tendency and protecting your resources would probably be a big part of any successful group.
VikingPrepper
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I didn’t mean right at the beginning. Lol I’m talking more along the lines of when the dust settles.
jontte
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jayjay,I'm part of the active reserve,something along the National Guard sort of thing,would say that 99.99% of the members are hunters,practice shooting and stuff,
so they already have guns,have the skills and we keep contact with each other
so they already have guns,have the skills and we keep contact with each other
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Avoid the masses and go further back in the back country, I'll stick to my original plan regardless.
KateMTx
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I really don't know because it would depend on so many things. I think the two main options would be hide or fight. This is a big country and there are a lot of areas that are "the middle of now where" that might be good places to be because it wouldn't be worth going after you. The other option would be to reenact "Red Dawn," I guess and start our own insurgency. I'm trying to imagine how we get into this scenario. An invasion of a country this size is not going to be a quick thing; lots of people will die on both sides before we lose the war. Also, what political or other entity is the de facto government (holds the monopoly on the "legitimate" use of violence) and is thus the target of our insurgent attacks? Or is it basically a free-for-all of some sort with a lot of groups participating in the invasion, and maybe dividing up the country into various areas controlled by different armies, so there are a lot of little "governments"? I do think it's a good idea to consider various possibilities and what some of the responses could be.
Estimates are that there are 393 million guns in the hands of civilians in the United States.
Kevin L
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I can think of a gazillion scenarios for SHTF, but I doubt a foreign invasion....unless it was by subterfuge from inside our government.
Isoroku Yamamoto (Commander in Chief of the Imperial Navy during WWII) said: "If we invade the American mainland....there will be a rifle behind every blade of grass."
Our enemies know this. In the U.S., everybody and their mother owns a gun. So many people own multiple guns, that even people without guns will get guns.
The only flaw in my reasoning that I can see is that there seem to be a lot more sheeple than I remember from the past, so perhaps our collective apathy is factored into the invasion plans.
The Yamamoto quote is disputed (can't prove he didn't say it, but there is inadequate documentation)
However Commander Robert Menard of the USS Constellation said that in 1960 he asked an (unnamed) Japanese Admiral why the Japanese had not invaded California after Pearl Harbor.
His response was not as pithy as the one attributed to Yamamoto: "We did indeed know much about your preparedness. We knew that probably every second home in your country contained firearms. We knew that your country actually had state championships for private citizens shooting military rifles. We were not fools to set foot in such quicksand."
However Commander Robert Menard of the USS Constellation said that in 1960 he asked an (unnamed) Japanese Admiral why the Japanese had not invaded California after Pearl Harbor.
His response was not as pithy as the one attributed to Yamamoto: "We did indeed know much about your preparedness. We knew that probably every second home in your country contained firearms. We knew that your country actually had state championships for private citizens shooting military rifles. We were not fools to set foot in such quicksand."
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tmttactical
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Freedom to bear arms is the path to keeping our freedom. Happy Independence day.
KateMTx
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I agree. But the original post on this thread asked about this scenario, so I was considering possibilities.
