There's a lot of concern about TSHTF scenarios and they usually come down to bug out or dig in. Food shortages leading to mobs roaming the streets willing to attack someone who has dug in, etc. My question is, how effective can people in that situation expect to be? Usually a mob/gang has one or two people who have mouthed off enough to take on some kind of leadership role? But are they truly qualified? I think as soon as one or two things go wrong, the mob will turn their back on their leaders anyway.
There's an old western, I think Audie Murphy played the lead, either him or Alan Ladd.Anyway, the main character is in this town and he's a legendary killer and everyone in this town knows he's there to kill someone, but no one knows who his victim is supposed to be.A big part of the story is all these different people who each think they're the target. Finally, a couple of people get the whole town riled up and a big mob approaches him, he's sitting on the porch of the place he's staying, drinking coffee, and they stop just off the porch and tell they're going to drag him out and lynch him or some such thing. He stands up, still sipping his coffee and tells them come on ahead and do it, basically that there's no way he can get all of them, but....he can get some of them. Pretty soon people start remembering that they've got chickens to feed or wood to split etc etc and start wandering off.
I think that's about what it takes to deal with that kind of mentality, but you better be willing to mean what you say and back it up. Communities developed millenia ago out of a need for mutual protection from other predators, animal and human. Gangs form for the same basic reason....fear. Thoughts? Uncle Remy, you going to throw something in here?
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