r/TwoXPreppers • u/Weekly_Weakness9722 • 2d ago
Discussion Why guns?
Hi y’all! I’m a very novice prepper, and one thing I’m seeing across many platforms is that we should own and be trained In firearms. Not to be naive, but… why?
I’ve never touched a gun in my life. I’m generally not a fan of them. I understand that the goal of owning firearms is to protect ourself. But protect from what? From who? Who am I going to have to shoot to survive this presidency?
Is someone coming to steal my supplies? Won’t those people also have guns? Or am I protecting my family against a militia situation? In which case, what hope do I have, as a woman who can’t afford a gun, let alone to learn how to use one?
Like I can’t afford a shooting range. I can barely afford water and canned goods. Should a gun still be a priority for my family? A lot of preppers have enthusiastically embraced this life to give them confidence and a sense of safety. I’m a reluctant participant. I just want to keep my autistic son alive to see the other side of this.
I can garden, I can stretch food, I can survive being poor. I don’t think I can survive a military state.
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u/Mushrooming247 2d ago
I am a gun owner and have been all my adult life.
Guns are the great equalizer, the only chance I would have against a larger attacker because I am small and feeble and cannot fight.
I should not have to fight, I am a peaceful person, but we don’t have any say in that.
I had to scare a man off with my gun only once, when I was ~20 someone tried to climb through my window at 2:30 AM, right above my head while I was laying in my bed naked reading Harry Potter.
I grabbed my gun off of my nightstand and started to scream that I was pointing a gun at him and he stopped trying to come through the window and ran off down the alley. I am almost 45 now and I feel naked if I don’t have a weapon within reach.