If I have to live in a world where I use up my emergency supplies in gun fights, well - that's not a place I want to be in. I'd better stock up on the leather pants with no backside and grow a purple mohawk.
Are we done with this? I'm tempted to close if nothing new.
Hey, I'm trying to steer this away from taboo topics, and towards normal, realistic scenarios.
"Emergency supply"= a bad storm can knock out water, power and just about everything else, and completely shut a city or region down. Police and other first responders will be over-extended, and prioritizing where they go. If you talk about a complete city, then unfortunately you are also looking at the sketchiest parts of that city, ... and those folks suddenly have their lives disrupted too (as we saw with Katrina), and they may respond to stress 'poorly'.
People have mentioned about home security and "what type of neighborhood are you in"... when the bad neighborhoods get kicked like an antpile, things spill out everywhere. We SAW that, multiple times, and it wasn't a subjective point of view. It was an objective fact. This scenario could play out regardless of any other current situation, but the fact is, we have several other things layered over society now, and one should try to take that into account.
Point being, what you considered an acceptable supply of anything in 2010, may not be the case in 2021. It could be more, it could be less.
*2 years ago if a storm was bearing down on me, I wanted a case of bottled water and a week's worth of ready-to-eat food that didn't need any preparation, for everyone in the house, 2 magazines worth of defensive ammo for handguns per 'functional adult' (in case you're wondering, I would include 17 yr old in that scenario). And a box of rifle ammo.
That, with a generator and up to 1 wk's worth of gas to run it.
That had been the timeframe, in the past, that was most common. Given the current social situation, I might lean into doubling everything.
