Preparedness website advising against MRE's

dirtbag · Post by **dirtbag** » Mon May 19, 2008 9:40 pm

I keep at least two cases of MRE's on hand, but I also bought a ' 30 days supply ' case from Mountain house, # 10 cans...
I think I'd have to be pretty hungry to dip into those cans, but you never know.....
Plus all the usual canned stuff. and usually 20 or so gallons of clean water, plus a Katadin water filter....
I carry 2 days worth of stuff in each car also, along with a stove and fuel and a cook kit... sleeping bag in the winter, extra water in summer. coupla books too.
Katrina was a rude awakening, and then there's the ' Big One ' ( I live in California )
Boy Scouts taught me to be Prepared, the military taught me to be prepared for anything and everything, and to be heavily armed...

Stef · Post by **Stef** » Tue May 20, 2008 5:46 am

dirtbag wrote:military taught me to be prepared for anything and everything, and to be heavily armed...

about this last point, I think your local authorities will remedy to that in case of crisis

dirtbag · Post by **dirtbag** » Tue May 20, 2008 12:01 pm

Stef wrote:
dirtbag wrote:military taught me to be prepared for anything and everything, and to be heavily armed...
about this last point, I think your local authorities will remedy to that in case of crisis

In case of ' crisis ', the local authorities are helpless...
Remember Hurricane Katrina ?

Stef · Post by **Stef** » Tue May 20, 2008 1:10 pm

yes that's just what I was thinking about and I didn't mean they'll remedy to insecurity but to the fact you're armed... their own way

Post by **kman** » Tue May 20, 2008 1:22 pm

Don't forget that during Katrina, the authorities weren't completely helpless - they had enough manpower available to go around and collect all the guns from private citizens:

http://www.gunsandammomag.com/second_am ... index.html

The NRA went to court to challenge the gun confiscation order and eventually won - but that didn't help all the people who had their guns illegally confiscated in the first place.

dirtbag · Post by **dirtbag** » Tue May 20, 2008 2:15 pm

Stef wrote:yes that's just what I was thinking about and I didn't mean they'll remedy to insecurity but to the fact you're armed... their own way

Ah, yes, but here I have the right to be armed !

Treesuit · Post by **Treesuit** » Tue May 20, 2008 11:41 pm

Don't forget that during Katrina, the authorities weren't completely helpless - they had enough manpower available to go around and collect all the guns from private citizens:

Kman, GEEZ...when did that happen? I don't remember hearing about that in any news report or article?

Stef · Post by **Stef** » Wed May 21, 2008 3:02 am

Hi,
waow, your TV/radio/computer were certainly turned off: we even see at the French TV new the police/military visiting people and confiscating guns!

We talked a lot about that on the French gun owners forums. We though "if they start to confiscate guns in the USA it's hopeless for the gun owners in the rest of the world"

Of course there was the gun bans, New-York laws... but your country is still THE world reference for the liberty to own firearms.

If they also ban MRE's, we'll have to find another planet

BigMark · Post by **BigMark** » Wed May 21, 2008 5:59 am

Heh, we won't have to find another planet, we'll just all have to chip in and buy a retort packaging plant and all go work there. I doubt it would really be all that hard to come up with some better menus if the price wasn't the entire issue.