wyntrout
07-01-2010, 12:44 PM
You know, when you're most likely to need your weapons... that's when you may lose them because of some emergency (defined by the government) condition and rules put into place by your pinheaded representatives of the local or state or national government.
We've only recently heard about some of those "laws" coming to light after weather warnings and such. Just when you really need to protect yourself and property, those weapons may be confiscated and your "right" to defend yourself abridged for the convenience of "government officials" and willingly enforced by LEOs who think it a good idea to limit gun ownership during emergences... or anytime.
We have some pretty good examples from Katrina... nationally televised by FoxNews.
Here's a bit:
YouTube - NRA: The Untold Story of Gun Confiscation After Katrina (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-taU9d26wT4&feature=related)
This could be happening in your area next.:eek:
You can talk about not surrendering your weapons, but what if you are besieged by SWAT-like units and tactics and there's just you in your un-hardened home, without a fighting position and armor and gas masks, etc?? That's the real scary part... we can be taken out one person or house at a time by these willing LEO participants as those people in Katrina affected areas were.
Some things were changed here in Florida after 2004 and all of the storms we had. Things like "No Pets Allowed" in shelters... any shelters, changed so that there are at least some pet friendly shelters... but I don't know about any weapon friendly shelters or CCW being permitted.
They also have plans for opening both sides of the Interstate for evacuation, not just the westbound side as they did during Floyd in 1999.
We evacuated for Floyd... needlessly... wife panicked. It took 12 minutes for us to get from the east side of Jacksonville to the intersection of I-95 and I-10 on the west side of town. there we hit the parking lot... 5 hours to go about 60 miles to Lake City where we got off the Interstate and parked in the parking lot of a closed convenience store just off I-10. Every big truck stop or gas station looked like RV parks so we went away from that side of the Interstate. We would have had to drive for a day or so to find any place to rent a room. We learned a lot and wouldn't even consider it in 2004 with all of the storms we had then.
My plan is to watch conditions and if really necessary, pack our van with guns, ammo, food and water, irreplaceable family pictures and documents, etc. and head west. We have bedding, a hassock potty, and DC coolers for food and drink, and can "camp out" as needed.
In an emergency like that, you may only have what you have with you, and if you aren't prepared to defend those things, you may not have that stuff long. I would never even consider any kind of public shelter. You would lose control of everything you have... stuff you would have to leave in your vehicle... particularly guns.
Wynn:behindsofa:
We've only recently heard about some of those "laws" coming to light after weather warnings and such. Just when you really need to protect yourself and property, those weapons may be confiscated and your "right" to defend yourself abridged for the convenience of "government officials" and willingly enforced by LEOs who think it a good idea to limit gun ownership during emergences... or anytime.
We have some pretty good examples from Katrina... nationally televised by FoxNews.
Here's a bit:
YouTube - NRA: The Untold Story of Gun Confiscation After Katrina (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-taU9d26wT4&feature=related)
This could be happening in your area next.:eek:
You can talk about not surrendering your weapons, but what if you are besieged by SWAT-like units and tactics and there's just you in your un-hardened home, without a fighting position and armor and gas masks, etc?? That's the real scary part... we can be taken out one person or house at a time by these willing LEO participants as those people in Katrina affected areas were.
Some things were changed here in Florida after 2004 and all of the storms we had. Things like "No Pets Allowed" in shelters... any shelters, changed so that there are at least some pet friendly shelters... but I don't know about any weapon friendly shelters or CCW being permitted.
They also have plans for opening both sides of the Interstate for evacuation, not just the westbound side as they did during Floyd in 1999.
We evacuated for Floyd... needlessly... wife panicked. It took 12 minutes for us to get from the east side of Jacksonville to the intersection of I-95 and I-10 on the west side of town. there we hit the parking lot... 5 hours to go about 60 miles to Lake City where we got off the Interstate and parked in the parking lot of a closed convenience store just off I-10. Every big truck stop or gas station looked like RV parks so we went away from that side of the Interstate. We would have had to drive for a day or so to find any place to rent a room. We learned a lot and wouldn't even consider it in 2004 with all of the storms we had then.
My plan is to watch conditions and if really necessary, pack our van with guns, ammo, food and water, irreplaceable family pictures and documents, etc. and head west. We have bedding, a hassock potty, and DC coolers for food and drink, and can "camp out" as needed.
In an emergency like that, you may only have what you have with you, and if you aren't prepared to defend those things, you may not have that stuff long. I would never even consider any kind of public shelter. You would lose control of everything you have... stuff you would have to leave in your vehicle... particularly guns.
Wynn:behindsofa: