Re: most reliable and durable rifle?
- From: "Fred Moore" <jetdrvr@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2005 12:11:40 +0000 (UTC)
"Clark Magnuson" <c.magnuson@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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# Mike Kelly wrote:
#
# # That's pretty harsh.
# I think Sean will survive.
#
# # By the way, there is no good reason to have any currency, gold or
otherwise,
# # in a survival situation.
# In 1938 Albert Einstein had a challenge to his survival, also experience
# by 100,000,000 others over the last century: Execution for political or
# ethnic reasons [right behind diseases but in front of wars for causes of
# premature deaths].
# Would Al have been better served with:
# A) a Mauser and a case of ammo?
# B) a passport and $10k in cash?
#
# You don't have to be Einstein to come up with the same answer that
# Einstein did.
You're assuming a handy frontier. If you're in Keokuk, Iowa, it's a long
walk to Canada or Mexico, and if this country went down, you can barely
imagine the chaos that would occur in Mexico. It's a hellhole now. In
anarchy, one of the first things to go would be the public transportation
system, particularly airlines. Besides, you're assuming that you'd have a
country in mind that would let you in with ten bucks in your pocket and no
government to back the ten bucks. As in all things complicated, there is no
simple answer.
If a complete social breakdown occurs, it's everyone for himself. In an
economic depression, I'd take the gold and the Mauser.
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