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napoleon_in_rags

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5. Famine is what the right wing preppers often forget/underestimate.

Reply to Speck Tater (Reply #1)

Sun Jan 13, 2013, 06:08 PM

Jan 2013

Some talk about guns, and Mao's dead millions. But the dead millions were the result of a failed agricultural policy that resulted in famine:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward#Famine
What do you do with the guns when there is simply no food?

The smartest preppers I've seen are the one's developing alternative, sustainable agriculture. Especially the kind that can operate in weird climates like deserts or cold.

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