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Runningdawg

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6. EXCELLENT - Prepping gets a bad rap

Reply to demtenjeep (Original post)

Sun Sep 1, 2019, 03:03 PM

Sep 2019

My family has survived the dust bowl, the depression, recessions, farm foreclosures, the bust of the oil boom....all because they were preppers from back when it was just called common sense.
The R wingers have hijacked it and turned it ugly.

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hubby is kind of a prepper -not the creepy kind, the what if kind. He bought me gunshot wound kit [View all] demtenjeep Sep 2019 OP

Many schools are distributing these--especially "quick place" tourniquets... hlthe2b Sep 2019 #1

That such a thing would be available or necessary should an affront to all pecosbob Sep 2019 #2

that is what I thought demtenjeep Sep 2019 #3

Makes you want to shut out the world pecosbob Sep 2019 #4

I agree demtenjeep Sep 2019 #5

EXCELLENT - Prepping gets a bad rap Runningdawg Sep 2019 #6

It's never a bad thing to be prepared. Each of us is our own first responder. WhiskeyGrinder Sep 2019 #7

Consider the odds. MineralMan Sep 2019 #8

yea, they are not good demtenjeep Sep 2019 #9