Bill_Rights
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I have been thinking for years now that guns/ammo are a better value investment than almost anything else. This article by Paul Helsinki on the GunsAmerica blog says it pretty well.
Buy Guns Not Gold- A Better Investment in the Age of Uncertainty by Paul Helinski
While it is a very long article and not particularly well written [sorry Paul, in case you are a THR member], the author does give an in depth analysis including 4 different scenarios about what might happen with the economy in the next 10 years. In each scenario, guns come out as a worthy investment. Only one of the scenarios is anywhere close to a TBDLO, SHTF, survivalist one, and there are no "zombies". I think it is a real possibility, as are the other three scenarios. Any comments?
And, just to give a flavor, here is an excerpt on the mild breakdown of law and order scenario (Option 3: High Unemployment and a De Facto Depression):
Buy Guns Not Gold- A Better Investment in the Age of Uncertainty by Paul Helinski
While it is a very long article and not particularly well written [sorry Paul, in case you are a THR member], the author does give an in depth analysis including 4 different scenarios about what might happen with the economy in the next 10 years. In each scenario, guns come out as a worthy investment. Only one of the scenarios is anywhere close to a TBDLO, SHTF, survivalist one, and there are no "zombies". I think it is a real possibility, as are the other three scenarios. Any comments?
And, just to give a flavor, here is an excerpt on the mild breakdown of law and order scenario (Option 3: High Unemployment and a De Facto Depression):
Imagine what America will do when the drive by media reports that police forces may have to abandon their posts because state treasuries are empty. Already cities across the U.S. will face a projected shortfall of $56 to $86 billion between 2010 and 2012, according to a report from the National League of Cities. Some cities in California have already disbanded their police force, leaving public safety to the already overburdened county law enforcement.
A depression of sorts, or even worse a full blown depression, will mean a cut of public services. High unemployment means lower tax revenues, which means states not able to pay their bills, which means that services, such as parks, fire and police, will be cut regardless of the outcome. It isn’t just California. New York, and other bastions of out of control government entitlements half already slashed public services. It is a national epidemic already.
This, coupled with unemployment itself of course, will lead to higher crime rates, newsworthy higher crime rates, and this is going to make people scared. By then most people aren’t going to be worrying about how much spot gold is going for today. They just want to be able to protect the two loaves of bread and 2 pounds of butter they just got off the FEMA truck, if the FEMA truck still would even exist at that point.
Civil unrest is something that the government is already planning for, though most people don’t want to believe it. Civil unrest is part of a destabilization. If a depression happens, there will be rioting, there will be crime, there will be people crazy to own guns to protect themselves. This is something that could happen today, let alone if things get worse.
Already, just since the Heller case brought the great American tradition of gun ownership into the public eye, droves of “city people” who knew not from guns have shown up at the gun rental counter to get a piece of what they have now come to understand is the foundation of American freedom. Many of them have come to the conclusion that they were unknowingly on the wrong side of the issue.