If we could head to the border of a country willing to accept us, we would.  Probably if we were in a situation like Ukraine is experiencing now, my wife and I would have left for the border a long time ago, instead of the majority of the people who trusted that diplomacy would prevail.

But we are on an island.  An island where at the sound of the first gunshot, our brave and illustrious leaders would be shitting their pants and bringing out the welcome wagon to appease the invaders.

My wife and I are also old.  No can run around like we used to.  Both my knees are bad and hers are not that much better.  So we going stay home and lay quiet and no advertise the fact that I have weapons and millions of ammunition rounds.

If the neighbors want to band together for more security I will be open to join them.  Maybe.  Depends.  Times of crisis affects people differently. 

All the war gear preparation would take a back seat to mindset if you ask me.  Mindset is what we all should prepare for in case of war.  Knowing the odds and being at peace with the result.

I going stay home....

One thing I keep procrastinating is teaching my wife and kids on how to load mags.....

My wife and kids don't want to learn how to handle and shoot firearms.  Might as well convince them to at least help me with the mag loading.....

I don't plan to bug out.  We live on an island.  Only can go in circles.  And the mountains?  Nah.  I going stay home.

Clint Smith had a vid (Clintism) about this. All his mags are loaded. Why, because in a fight, you don't want to be loading mags. He has a nice half size tall milk crate filled with mags under the bed. And a string attached to it so he can pull it out easier. He has an ammo can with mags in his car (illegal in HI).

Just hope ET doesn't land in his back yard. Another Clintism. "If ET lands and all that smoke and lights and shit is coming out from his space ship. I'm gonna ask him 1 time and 1 time only to drop the ray gun. if not he's getting 00 buck.  Sorry nothing personal, but welcome to earth". Something like that.

As a paranoid-confusional, I'll be investigating FRAS armor, a new type of body protection produced by Safelite.



Scott has tested this against 5.56 and 7.62 mm ammo, which means it's nominally good against Commie rifles. Friggin' expensive, but if my L'Oreal wife is worth it, so is her husband (me).

https://safelifedefense.com/product/uniform-style-flexible-rifle-armor-fras/

Get their 50 cal rated one. Edwin Sarkesian YT channel tested it and it works. You will have every bone in your chest broken, but no penetration at least.

Too bad Dragon Skin went the way of the Dodo by Pinnacle.  I tried to goggle why it failed army testing and the only thing there was rumor about was the adhesive holding the coins together melted in heat which caused them to fall to the bottom of the carrier and be useless.  I'm sure there were no politics involved like the cost to replace the existing interceptor body armor at the time. 

Get their 50 cal rated one. Edwin Sarkesian YT channel tested it and it works. You will have every bone in your chest broken, but no penetration at least.

Too bad Dragon Skin went the way of the Dodo by Pinnacle.  I tried to goggle why it failed army testing and the only thing there was rumor about was the adhesive holding the coins together melted in heat which caused them to fall to the bottom of the carrier and be useless.  I'm sure there were no politics involved like the cost to replace the existing interceptor body armor at the time.

Dragon skin was hype.  Too many problems and it weighed almost twice as much as the current armor.  Throwing an extra 20 pounds of armor on someone is pretty  brutal.

Reason you want to be light in a full blown war is you want to be able to run fast to get away, could be a couple miles.  Plus you're going up and down multistory stairs, climbing hills, crawling around, crawling through rubble, etc.  You want to be as light as sleek as you can be.  You may also have to ditch all of your equipment to hide.