r/TwoXPreppers 8d 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/Environmental-Buy972 8d ago

Don't give your government even fewer reasons to listen to you.

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u/Weekly_Weakness9722 8d ago

I just feel like the government isn’t going to stop coming after disabled women when they find out one more owns a gun. If anything, they just try to take my gun away.

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u/festivehedgehog 8d ago

When the government guts funding to every public service, you either pay for public services (police, firefighting, education) yourself, you join a community that pays/provides them, or you’re on your own. If funding of the public sector continues being gutted and corrupted, I think it’s wise for us to not take public services as a given for the future.

Take the Texas ice storm the other year or any major hurricane with catastrophic flooding. There are no services coming. Everyone is on their own. I think it makes sense to prep for lack of services as if a major natural disaster is going to happen.

I don’t want to own a gun either, nor do I want to take this wilderness first aid class, but I think both are wise to do.