Social Unrest: What is your plan?

[Alpha2]

Hey, guys, check out Kazoo's avatar...HE'S AN ALIEN! Nothing he says applies to you. It's not like they are going to fire-bomb his place, the secondary explosion devastation would reach for miles.

[HoneyBadger]

Hunkering down seems like a plan.

But, what happens when the thuggies realize they are not going to get into the house and loot? Wouldn't they just start burning the place down?

I guess I'll have to work on an escape plan.

I plan to hunker down. If it gets to the point where houses are being burned down in my neighborhood, I will have handed out all available weapons to each of my neighbors. You don't see a single cop or national guardsman trying to repel the rioters by themselves... you see an organized team. This is what you must be if you want to be effective in such a situation. Even 3 people with rifles can be a very effective defense force for a pretty large area.

ETA: the MOST IMPORTANT PART of bugging in is making your safe house an undesirable target for others. Multiple layers of security, multiple levels of deterrent; DO NOT make yourself an easy target!

[buffalobo]

One of the primary reasons I live in the country.

No way I could deal with such @$!#/^&* going on in my neighborhood.

When it comes to the big cities in Colorado we will check our preps and stand by in case any family-minions-horde members-friends need help getting out. Once they all get here, gonna make popcorn and watch the glow on the horizon.

[Great-Kazoo]

rat traps, scattered about the property. Each one attached to small vials of tannerite.

[Big E3]

Interesting story, a friend of mine in New Orleans during the aftermath of Katrina put together a neighborhood program to defend against intruders. They parked cars at the ends of the streets to prevent people driving up and discourage people from walking in. The took turns guarding the streets in small armed groups around the clock sitting in lawn chairs inside the perimeter. When the national guard was going virtually door to door confiscating weapons they just drove by saw what they were doing, waved and left them alone with arms.

I would hope that scenario could work here to avoid conflict with authorities in the event of a declared martial law scenario after a disaster or unrest.

[rbeau30]

Interesting story, a friend of mine in New Orleans during the aftermath of Katrina put together a neighborhood program to defend against intruders. They parked cars at the ends of the streets to prevent people driving up and discourage people from walking in. The took turns guarding the streets in small armed groups around the clock sitting in lawn chairs inside the perimeter. When the national guard was going virtually door to door confiscating weapons they just drove by saw what they were doing, waved and left them alone with arms.

I would hope that scenario could work here to avoid conflict with authorities in the event of a declared martial law scenario after a disaster or unrest.

I hope that something like that could work here where I am. However, I think that there are more non-firearm-owning-pacifist liberals in my neighborhood. A lot of good things can come out of a group of like-minded individuals making things happen.

[Zundfolge]

However, I think that there are more non-firearm-owning-pacifist liberals in my neighborhood.

Someone has to cook the meals, clean the latrines and do the hard labor (at gunpoint if necessary)


Thing is there's different levels of "Social Unrest".

If we're talking about some riots in "that part of town" well, I'm far enough away from "that part of town" that I'm not worried about it spilling over here ... and if it does then I live in a valley with many other armed people and we can block off our neighborhood much like what was described by another poster happening in New Orleans.

If we're talking about serious wide spread but likely short term and recoverable unrest (like a month or so), then it may be a little tougher but I still think we're pretty safe where we are (and again, my original point was the same as the 3 rules of Real Estate; location, location, location.)

Now if we're talking about full scale TEOTWAWKI, end of western civilization, brave new Mad Max like world ... well honestly I have no intention of surviving in that world. I still want to live in a world where America is America (yeah, that may have already come to an end) we have electricity and internet and indoor plumbing and a basically functioning society. I have no interest in going all Road Warrior or Book of Eli or Damnation Alley here. So if it comes to that I'm euthanizing the pets and then wreaking havoc of the nearest leftists (whom I blame for all this mess) until I get put down. This final possibility seems pretty unlikely to me (especially since such a thing would likely be started by a nuclear war ... which I don't expect anyone in The Springs to survive the first few minutes of).

[rbeau30]

Unfortunately, for the time being I am stuck in this location. I live overall in a nice part of town. But if this job ever goes south I may have to downsize. So I don't think a better residence location is currently in my near future.

I'm with you. If they don't or can't pick up a firearm and pull the trigger in defense of themselves or other folks, then they can pick up a shovel or do other tasks.

[Aloha_Shooter]

Put on a chimp suit ala "Planet of the Apes" and throw poo at the thugs hoodlums rioters protestors. In the meantime, I'll play some Woodie Guthrie, read some Maya Angelou, and tell everyone I'm Instagramming them with my old model cellphone.

[HoneyBadger]

Thing is there's different levels of "Social Unrest".

If we're talking about some riots in "that part of town" well, I'm far enough away from "that part of town" that I'm not worried about it spilling over here ... and if it does then I live in a valley with many other armed people and we can block off our neighborhood much like what was described by another poster happening in New Orleans.

If we're talking about serious wide spread but likely short term and recoverable unrest (like a month or so), then it may be a little tougher but I still think we're pretty safe where we are (and again, my original point was the same as the 3 rules of Real Estate; location, location, location.)

Nailed it with "Location, Location, Location"

Unless there is some weird uprising against the upper-middle class, gainfully-employed Briargate area, I think I'm pretty safe from this type of thing. I can't imagine a situation where rioters would be coming into my neighborhood (short of the end of western civilization), but if they did, there is only 1 road in, and the whole neighborhood has 1/2 mile of open field all around it - pretty easily defensible.

Now, I'm moving to CA in 3 weeks (against my will, trust me), but the house we bought there is in a similar neighborhood, surrounded by farm fields, and several miles from the "bad" part of the small town that it is in. It'll be tough to get a feel for my neighbors there because people are afraid to openly talk about guns, and I suspect people probably don't openly talk about preps or anything like that with their new neighbors either. Time will tell. I'll be sure to report back to this subforum in a month or two with some feedback. I suspect that there are a lot prepared individuals in the area we are moving to (right between LA and San Fran), but I don't know who my neighbors will be. I think the statist chokehold and progressive policies have forced the gun industry and shooters to be much more resourceful in CA than the rest of the country, and places like Ares Armor and their middle finger to the ATF are encouraging.