Wife Says Buy More Ammo!!

[eddiememphis]

Ammo can be considered a commodity. It tends to retain it's value over a long period. If you play the market, you could make a profit but is it worth speculating?

In a doomsday scenario, you will likely be able to use it to barter. 10 or 15 rounds of .22 may be worth a chicken.

I am not going to stock up in anticipation of daily shootouts with roving gangs of pillagers. We live in a society where most people will be dead three or four days after the water stops flowing and the majority of the rest a week or two later from conflict, then starvation.

That is when I will stick my head out and see what remains.

Judging by the current political situation, locally and nationally, it seems we have more to fear from our own government then from an emp or pandemic.

[buffalobo]

Ammo can be considered a commodity. It tends to retain it's value over a long period. If you play the market, you could make a profit but is it worth speculating?

In a doomsday scenario, you will likely be able to use it to barter. 10 or 15 rounds of .22 may be worth a chicken.

I am not going to stock up in anticipation of daily shootouts with roving gangs of pillagers. We live in a society where most people will be dead three or four days after the water stops flowing and the majority of the rest a week or two later from conflict, then starvation.

That is when I will stick my head out and see what remains.

Judging by the current political situation, locally and nationally, it seems we have more to fear from our own government then from an emp or pandemic.

And if the gangs show up for you in two days? They may not allow you to just hunker down for two weeks. Once criminals figure out the police are not coming they will rampage.

Being in a big city in doomsday scenario is a death sentence.

If you're unarmed, you are a victim.

[eddiememphis]

And if the gangs show up for you in two days? They may not allow you to just hunker down for two weeks. Once criminals figure out the police are not coming they will rampage.

Being in a big city in doomsday scenario is a death sentence.

If you're unarmed, you are a victim.

I have plenty of ammunition but I am not hoarding it specifically for that situation.

And you are correct that city livin' isn't optimal. However, there are a lot of dwellings in this city and the chances of mine being among the first to be pillaged is pretty remote. Remote enough that I don't consider it a probability, just a possibility.

There could be hundreds of reasons why society would breakdown. Preparing for all of them isn't possible. I have enough food, water and ammo to quietly wait for the smoke to clear. If roving bands of marauders find me, so be it. But I am not going to fortify my condo and stockpile 25,000 rounds of ammo for each gun in the incredibly remote possibility of that happening.

Although it is fun to think about the possible causes and outcomes of The End of the World, I am much more likely to have a chain wrapped around my head tonight when I walk the dog by one of the junkies that populate our metropolis, then to experience the scenarios we are discussing.