Gulf Coast Survival

In a survival situation, it’s essential that you have the means to defend yourself and your family. Korean shopkeepers learned this during the L.A. Riots after the Rodney King verdict, when they experienced almost instantaneous mass destruction from insane mobs. To save their stores, their lives, and their income, they defended their shops with AK-47s from their rooftops – preventing looters, arsonists, and murderers from taking what they wanted.

During post-Katrina New Orleans, citizens who were unarmed (or disarmed by law enforcement) had no way to prevent looters from taking what they wanted. Armed citizens, however, were able to keep what they had left safe.

In a post-Gulf disaster evacuation, there only remaining citizenry will be law enforcement (who is not able to protect and serve everyone all at once), predators (i.e. thieves and thugs), and honest citizens who didn’t want to leave all their stuff to fate (or who had nowhere else to go). Out of the “citizen” class of people, some will be easy pickins’ and others…no one will want to mess with. Of which class of people will you belong on that day?

Hopefully, you’ll be one of the citizens who won’t be threatened, or at least who can defend their life, their livelihood, and their loved ones. To do that, you’ll need defense tools.

So, what will you need? Here are a few recommendations:

• A handgun. This should be something you can carry – comfortably and conveniently. I recommend a .380 or a compact 9mm or even compact .40. Some models to look at are the Glock 30, Glock 26, and the Ruger LCP.

• A 12-gauge shotgun. Get a Remington 870 or a Mossburg 500.

• A defense rifle. Get a AR-15 in .223.

These are all for defense. They can be useful when you’re in your backyard, gardening, and you see a few thugs pop their heads over your fence and then they start climbing over the fence to take your food and your life. They can be useful when you hear someone breaking your window so they can get in and steal your things. They can be useful when you’re driving (maybe trying to escape the city) and you break down – only to see a pack of thugs walking your way. They’re useful for defense in any nightmarish (but possible) situation you can think of.

(Not to change subjects, but get an air rifle (and a huge package of pellets) as well: you never know when you’ll need to resort to hunting small birds and squirrels for food. No need to waste precious ammo and also call attention to yourself.)

No one but an insane, foolish, or irresponsible person would be without firearms in today’s society, especially with some of the threats that we now know are possible (within less than a 24-hour period, no less). So arm yourself today, before the sun sets on your safety.