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Originally Posted by DWB
I don't know about you, but I will do the same thing as if I caught a burglar in my house tonight, I'd shoot him.
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Only needs one gun for that.
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The problem is, they don't take the guns away from criminals. So the bad guys always have guns, the good guys do not. How do you think that plays out?
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Everyone has guns and it becomes a war zone.
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Paul, you are not seeing the larger picture that your government, and you, are dependent on the outside world. It is much more complex that building your house in the right area.
What does your country import? How much of everything you buy is imported? Where does your water come from? Where does your power come from? Where does your hospitals get their medicine? Where does your animal feed come from? Where does your country buy oil from? This list is huge. If you have experienced a real disaster you would not be saying the things you are, because it goes WAY beyond not building your home in the middle of tornado alley. The distribution chain is everything. If that breaks down, everything breaks down. And you have to look at both local and country wide distribution chains. Just because it can get into your country doesn't mean it can reach you.
Your government looks out for you to a degree. But unless your country is 100% self sufficient (they are not), then you will live and die by the rise and fall of other nations and their disasters.
Disaster happen all over the world and they happen without notice. Once you figure out where everything you NEED to survive comes from, from your medicine, to your power, to the spare parts in the ER room at the hospital, then you can come back and say you have nothing to worry about if everything you need is produced locally.
That doesn't mean you have to live in fear, that would be stupid. But it means you shouldn't be so trustful that you're ass is covered 100%. Because in every disaster, there are those who make it through, and those who become statistics. Which one you will be is a mix of luck and preparation.
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And how do you prepare for that?
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So how much fluid does the average, healthy adult living in a temperate climate need? The Institute of Medicine determined that an adequate intake for men is roughly 3 liters (about 13 cups) of total beverages a day. For women is 2.2 liters (about 9 cups) of total beverages a day.
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So for a week for a couple it's 26 litres a week. 780 for a month. How much have you got stored?
Won't even go into the other stuff.
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Right, because it is impossible for distribution chains to break down anywhere else in the world. It only happens where yellow and brown people live.
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Happens in Thailand, where do you live?
And what are you doing to prepare for the things that are very likely to happen? As I pointed out previously.