Jorg,
I dont need a "citation". Crud, do you think I kept notes from that long ago in order to convince uniformed peopel 17 years later? I dont give a rip if you believe me or not, but you may want to pay attention, cause it all happened.
I was in CA when those riots erupted. The local news carried scenes that the national news didnt. I remember two guys that broke into a gun shop to protect themselves from a gang and fired many hundreds of rounds at that gang and survived. I cant and wont give a needless citation, but I watched it on TV as those two guys shot it out for over an hour with about 15 armed gang members. A news helcopter was filming.
I remember a large firearmes/ammo distributor in LA that was hit by looting mobs. All the buildings around them were set on fire from the mobs. They, on the other hand, placed about 10 men with AR 15s' on the roof of their building and held off the mobs. This was also filmed by a news reporter in a helocopter.
I remeber news footage (this one aired nationaly) of Reginald Denny being drug out of his truck in a riot caused traffic jam. He was beaten, had his skull crushed with a brick and was left to die in the streets of LA and no one intervened. After he was left for dead, some gang banger walked up and shot him at point blank with a 12 gauge. At the time this was happening, I commented to my wife how different the out come would have been if I was driving that truck instead of Reginald.
I remember news footage of several neighborhoods that barricaded their streets off with cars and with armed men--and saved thier neighborhoods in the process.
These riots werent the first deadly riots in LA. 20 years earlier, they had the Watts riots, in which more people were killed than in the Rodney King riots. I belive similar riots have occured in NY, SF, and Detroit over the years. Never mind Katrina.
My point certainly isnt that a riot is comming to your town soon, far from it. My point is that too much ammo is better than too little ammo. Any attemtp on our part to rationalize or figure what will or wont happen to us in this life, is a feeble, at best, attempt. Being ignorant of the facts certainly wont help. At least we can be informed. Heck, most folks choose not to carry any form of protection at all--they can have it.
Public unrest and civil disobenience is a greater and greater reality as this society with all its moral problems deteriorates more an more. Just wait till a big earth quake comes to an urban area near you. I'm not going to "cite" that either, believe it or not, your choice, wont effect me. Each person will make those decisions for themselves. Since you asked, this thread was about how much ammo to carry, not body armor and long guns.