this is a TEOTWAWKI scenario, there are many more pressing issues to worry about than NV. Do you have a permanent clean water source and the means to process the water for your lifetime? Do you have a sustainable food source for ALL your food needs. Do you have a lifetime supply of soap, toilet paper, clothing, etc. Do you have enough supplies to maintain your home for the rest of your life? Do you have a lighting system, because there will be no batteries, bulbs, electricity or anything else? Do you have the knowledge and skills to make the soap, candles, cloth, and any other supplies that you will need for the rest of your life? Do you have birth control to last your lifetime? If not, then you will need a lot more supplies. Do you have proper medical supplies to last a lifetime? How about transportation? Gasoline will not be available in a world collapse. How about heat for the house? Do you have a planned system to supply all of these things? Unless you live in a very rural area, there will not be any trees within a year or two as people use them to make fires. If you live in the city or suburbs, you would not be able to defend your home from invaders long term unless you were always on patrol. This is just not going to happen. You will be too busy with all of the stuff listed above.
If you are thinking of a nuclear war scenario, then those that survive would have even more trouble. Remember that the bunkers built for Congress, that cost billions of dollars, could only sustain themselves for 3 months at best. This was with a team of experts. I spent some time thinking about this and have come to the conclusion that it is logical to prepare for short term emergencies. Bugging out at the first sign of trouble will not work either. If this is an end of the world as we know it scenario, you would be heading to a cabin or wherever you plan on bugging to, that is already looted as friendships will be broken as people try to survive and will take what they can from whoever has it. You would then head back to a house that is looted as well since you r neighbors know you left for the hills and figured you won’t make it back.
I find many of the posts on gun boards have very specific SHTF scenarios that are built up to support whatever item or items the person writing wants or has. These scenarios are usually more fantasy than reality. Not that there is anything wrong with it for fun but most of these scenarios are made up by people that think of them as viable and possible scenarios. There was a recent post about what guns you would take to Africa in 1928 while exploring. This post, while fun, was not meant to be taken seriously.
The person that thinks the world will turn into a road warrior type situation is exactly the type of stereotype that the anti-gun crowd wants to show us as. Just as those that think they are ninjas, or that they are going to be running around with a Kevlar helmet, assault west, thigh holster, wearing night vision goggles, camo outfit on patrol in the neighborhood while there is a breakdown in the government and all hell breaks loose, they are living in a fantasy world. Like a modern day Dungeons and Dragons fantasy kid running around with tights on and a sword on his back thinking he is half elf because he was watching Lord of the Rings.
Don’t take this as an attack on all posts on preparedness, but you really need to think about what will really happen, as opposed to what you would like to think could happen. Prepare for power outages, interruption of the water supply, food stoppage, natural disaster that might happen in your area, etc for short term. In some areas, preparing for a forest fire, flood or such would be cause for a bug out bag. Nuclear war, worldwide government collapse, or these types of scenarios are too widespread and catastrophic to prepare for. No one on this board is rich enough to be able to prepare for this type of event. This is all just my opinion, you may agree or not but if you did not want to discuss it, you would not have posted on a forum.
I find it odd that the post says that if you don’t agree with the scenario, don’t post. What you really want to say was that you made up your mind and don’t want to hear any opinion that is not exactly the same as yours.