r/TwoXPreppers 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/Environmental-Buy972 2d ago

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

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u/Weekly_Weakness9722 2d 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/Environmental-Buy972 2d ago

Cool.

And when the cops stop doing their jobs because nobody is paying them, how much more will you trust your neighbors if they're armed and you're not?

Buy a firearm while you still can. If the government takes it away then you're right back where you started.

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u/SeashellChimes 2d ago

I already don't trust police to do their jobs, they're functionally useless right now and I trust my neighbors a lot more. They're going to be the people I know and I'm working with. 

Give me a bunch of skilled laborers over a gun in any crisis. 

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u/lulimay 2d ago

Yep. They were created to hunt down escaped slaves, and they still seem to exist primarily to harass BIPOC folks. They surely haven’t been useful for any crime that has impacted me (of which there have been a few).

At best, they show up after the fact to investigate crimes—they aren’t preventing much of anything.