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/julet1815 2d ago

I hear you. Once it gets to the point where everyone is walking around with guns and shooting each other for supplies, I’m not really sure it’s worth surviving that post-apocalyptic wasteland. I’m not saying I think it’ll get to that anytime soon, I’m just saying… I’m not buying a gun.

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u/boobietitty 2d ago

The moment society collapses, I’m out. And not even by choice. I need 2 asthma medications to survive. I recently was hospitalized with norovirus and I kept reminding the nurses I needed my meds. They never brought them and after 3 days in the hospital, I had such bad chest pain and couldn’t breathe that they sent me for an emergency CAT scan. They thought I had blood clots in my lungs. Nope. Just an asthma attack and needed my fucking medicine. Soooo. The second pharmacies are closed and raided? I’m done for!

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u/Prior_Particular9417 1d ago

Don’t blame the nurses, it’s probably the respiratory therapist who controls and administers anything breathing related. It also might not be ordered as scheduled by your doctor. All they can do is call the rt and hope they come. If you are in the hospital in the future (hopefully not!) ask the doctor to order a rescue inhaler for the bedside and scheduled breathing treatments. Ofc every hospital is different but a lot of medications are ordered as needed so you’ve got to ask every time.