Monday, March 30, 2015

Getting Into Preppers Groups May Not Be As Easy As You Might Think

By Iva Cannon


When people think that the government is being too harsh on a certain type of person, many of them will take to their own to protect themselves. This is not a bad way to go, they say, because they feel they are already on their own. They store up a lot of food, handguns and rifles as well as ammunition and plenty of first aid supplies. These are called preppers groups because they are preparing themselves for what is coming.

In some cases, it does not take the suggestion the government is after them. It might only be a relatively large scale natural disaster to get the individuals to group together. It might only be a small number of people, such as family. It might also be a group as large as a neighborhood or one that is related only by their love of bowling or hunting.

Many of them have a lot of planning involved in what they are storing. They will spend a lot of money and time to create a water delivery system, often feeding it off of a close by river or from a deep well, complete with pumps, operated by a generator, if need be. Others will store bottled water after it is prepared with a sanitizer to ensure they have plenty of this life saving liquid.

There will be a lot of food. A good portion of their storage space will be taken up by dehydrated food that can supply them with all the subsistence they need for many months if not a year or longer. High in the carbohydrates and proteins they need for that active lifestyle they believe they are in for.

Once each group gets established, they very rarely recruit new members. The purpose of being off by themselves is that they have to protect what little they have from anyone else who is not a part of them. Very few will trade with each other because that would give away precious secrets they are ill prepared to give away.

People not wanting their guns and ammunition confiscated from them will comprise many of these groups. They will be the militant ones and be very defensive about everything they do. They claim they are protecting their second amendment rights and this may, in fact, be what they believe. Others are not as militant, preferring to do the same thing in a different way,

Those that agree about not relinquishing their second amendment rights, but are not a part of such a group is more open and outgoing about their need for secrecy, however, they still keep everything they have very close to their chest. They work more with legislative efforts than with what some would consider open warfare.

In short, when preppers discover disasters, whether natural or man made, they come together in a bond of preparation for the bad thing coming. They are not comfortable around other people who do not share their single minded attention to something that may be real or imagined. They combine resources, materials and knowledge hoping they have enough of whatever it takes to survive for a few more days, weeks, or months.




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