Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire When the fight comes to you: why the pump is primed for a rural conflict

Drug abuse is a huge problem throughout the country and is present in most communities. Non drug users are out of the loop and are not aware of the depth of the problem until it occurs w/in their family or social group. All social factors increase w/ population density. Rural folks tend to be more self sufficient but an apocalyptic breakdown of society will exempt no one.

It is fun to imagine a problem that we can solve w/ a gun. Many here would be rendered combat ineffective as soon as their meds ran out


mike r

....or toilet paper...or beer... or gummy bears....or...

Mais oui. Certainment.

In south Louisiana we have pockets. New orleans of course is a chit hole. Outside of major cities we really dont put up with that kinda bs. I live in a neighborhood with bunch of good ole boys that kinda welcome the challenge should it come to that. Antifa wouldnt make it here. One way trip.

Around here we know who most of the dope heads are or have a good idea. Our sheriff does too. He also knows who of us he can trust with his back. Trust me it's like that allot of places and if push come to shove he'll have allot of help. Most of these dope heads are a few steps away from prison anyway and their demise will not be a sorrowful event. As for what comes from the cities. I doubt they will find any mercy to be had.

A good friend of mine used to live in Colorado and he was a deputy, years ago. Word got out that some biker group aimed to come to town and make a wreck of things. The local tv news interviewed the sheriff and he announce he had 60 extra deputies he had just sworn in and the first bike across the bridge coming into town was going to be the beginning of a road block since the rider would be dead from some bullet that came from town. Nothing ever happened.

In reading these threads on this subject I detect allot of pent up anger against those that want to destroy America and freedom. That might be hard for the haters of America to contain.

Besides, there's not as much cool stuff to loot. They might steal a tractor.

They will just try to burn rural America to the ground in a fit of hate.

Won't happen. If it did, it would be very short lived. City folk do not understand country folk.

The dopers around here party all night and sleep until noon. The neighbors know who they are, and they already know where to dig a hole and save the community some money and jail space if they ever chose to act up. Nobody would notice, or care, if a few meth heads just disappeared.

Pretty sure they don't advertise in the local paper.

The article's point is that there are knowledgeable radicals who recruit country folk into the left. He does not give numbers but he does raise some good points.

The picture of the antifa person in syria was very interesting.

https://drrichswier.com/2020/08/08/...-fight-alongside-kurdish-marxist-groups/

Wait, these enhance my shooting skills?!

Lots of one way in/one way out places here. We also have front end loaders.

We are training/prepping (to whatever degree) in a time of plenty. The time of dying is coming, and then we will only have who we can trust. Combat veterans here are ahead of the curve.

That article is pure fiction.

You city guys ever see the movie “Deliverance”?

Just like the old adage, "You get the gunfight you get....not the one you planned and trained for." "You will get the civil unrest, insurrection, etc that you get. It probably won't look anything like what all these jokers with their crystal balls predict.

Bought some more hogs and lime. Going to have plenty of bacon.

Most of my friends have always been bikers, military guys, and rednecks. Many of them used drugs or drank, if not now, in the past. All of them have been on our side of any conflict. I have spent considerable time in the homes of poor folks in the country where several generations were in the home. Teen pregnancy and substance abuse were the norm. Most of these people, were I to come banging on their door at 3 a.m. with sirens coming down the road behind me, would hide me and do their best to help me. None of them tolerate much from “foreigners”. All of them vote like I do. This guy who wrote the article points out what may well be a valid threat in some places. He hasn’t a foggy clue about the Ozarks and people here.

People have gone missing in the Mark Twain National Forest for years. It isn’t the place to make a nuisance of yourself. And it is not leftist friendly. At all. Recruiting out here might land the recruiter on a missing persons list. Just because your neighbor out here gets food stamps does not mean some leftist is going to be able to get anywhere with them. Sounds weird, but country folks around here can get all kinds of welfare, have drug habits and a record a mile long, and still vote Republican. Talk to them a while, you find out some of them hate the left more than you do. It’s a strange dynamic, but that’s hillbilly country. Antifa’s gonna have a fun hike in the woods, when they have rednecks who bowhunt all the time(because they feed their kids that way and are felons who can’t get caught with a gun)stalking their commie azzes. The author is right, the country can be a rough place. But he is all wet in who he thinks it will be rough on.

If you want to know about drug abuse in rural America, read "Dreamland" by Sam Quinones.

Fireballz did.

He been walking the woods ever since.

LOL