As most of us know, or realize to be true, it is much more likely to experience a personal devestation (job loss, loss of family, etc). After that something that affects your area is much more probable than something that affects the entire state or country. And something moderately severe is much more likely than a total collapse.
Given that MANY people have a shotgun in the closet, whether they hunt dove, deer, ducks, geese, turkey, or its just dad's hand-me-down. I have given thought that it would be extremely useful to be able to hand out a couple boxes of buckshot around the community and have a whole COMMUNITY of armed sentinels in the case of a regional issue (large scale power outage or storm or something). Something bad enough that society wont quite be normal, but not so bad that you aren't expected to be at work.
BUT, how much of the community is willing to defend their community to the point of lethal force? A few, but probably not a ton. And, all those hunters with their shotguns probably don't even own a single box of any sort of defense-worthy ammunition, with the exception of the deer hunters. Then, they probably own 10 rounds or so. So I've been thinking it would be good to order 250-500 buckshot, just to hand out 10 or 20 rounds to each shotgun owning household. Again, I wouldn't do this if it was a total collapse, but something where the community will be staying put and should defend themselves.
But, with the thought of how few would be willing to use lethal force, it occured to me tonight that perhaps it would also be wise to stock up on a hundred rounds or so of rubber buckshot. Mabye hand out 20 rounds of the lethal stuff, and 5 or 10 rounds of the rubber buckshot?
Good idea or bad idea? I think the less than lethal would open up a LOT more of the neighborhood to helping STOP any issues before they become major. I think a warning round or three of rubber buckshot and the knowledge that many in the neighborhood are more than willing to pull the trigger would make a hostile group much more likely to re-evaluate their choice of targets. I don't think it would work in a total collapse, but really, how likely is that?
The biggest issue I see is this: If somebody gets trigger happy would you be liable for having provided the ammo / encouraged them to stand their ground and defend their community. Doubly true if they use the lead rounds instead of the LTL rounds. You and I know that you are only justified to pull the trigger on LTL if you are also justified to pull the trigger on buckshot, but does bubba down the street? Thoughts? Ideas?
Given that MANY people have a shotgun in the closet, whether they hunt dove, deer, ducks, geese, turkey, or its just dad's hand-me-down. I have given thought that it would be extremely useful to be able to hand out a couple boxes of buckshot around the community and have a whole COMMUNITY of armed sentinels in the case of a regional issue (large scale power outage or storm or something). Something bad enough that society wont quite be normal, but not so bad that you aren't expected to be at work.
BUT, how much of the community is willing to defend their community to the point of lethal force? A few, but probably not a ton. And, all those hunters with their shotguns probably don't even own a single box of any sort of defense-worthy ammunition, with the exception of the deer hunters. Then, they probably own 10 rounds or so. So I've been thinking it would be good to order 250-500 buckshot, just to hand out 10 or 20 rounds to each shotgun owning household. Again, I wouldn't do this if it was a total collapse, but something where the community will be staying put and should defend themselves.
But, with the thought of how few would be willing to use lethal force, it occured to me tonight that perhaps it would also be wise to stock up on a hundred rounds or so of rubber buckshot. Mabye hand out 20 rounds of the lethal stuff, and 5 or 10 rounds of the rubber buckshot?
Good idea or bad idea? I think the less than lethal would open up a LOT more of the neighborhood to helping STOP any issues before they become major. I think a warning round or three of rubber buckshot and the knowledge that many in the neighborhood are more than willing to pull the trigger would make a hostile group much more likely to re-evaluate their choice of targets. I don't think it would work in a total collapse, but really, how likely is that?
The biggest issue I see is this: If somebody gets trigger happy would you be liable for having provided the ammo / encouraged them to stand their ground and defend their community. Doubly true if they use the lead rounds instead of the LTL rounds. You and I know that you are only justified to pull the trigger on LTL if you are also justified to pull the trigger on buckshot, but does bubba down the street? Thoughts? Ideas?
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