Of all the challenges preppers might have to face, civil unrest is probably the most unpredictable. It might sound strange right. A nuclear blast, or an EMP, you can fall back on tech, safety measures and your storehouse of supplies.
When you watch and read interviews from people who’ve been through a civil war, major civil unrest event or wide-spread riots, a lot of them will say “I didn’t see it coming!” They didn’t know what to look for or know when to be concerned.
It’s especially concerning here in the western world where we are constantly being exposed to inflated media messages about hot-button things going on elsewhere. To the point that it can desensitize you to seeing the real signs of civil unrest coming straight at you!
Look around the house sometime, and think about the value of all the stuff you have. Not how much money you paid for it – consider how important it is to you. Some things will be valuable to you because you use them all the time. Some will have sentimental value. Some will be important just because you like them. It’s a safe bet that if you were told you had to get rid of half your stuff, you could list your belongings in order of importance pretty easily.
If the SHTF and society collapses, the order of that list is likely to change quite dramatically. For example I have three English longbows which I love, and a compound bow that I don’t particularly like at all. In a crisis, though, the compound will be a lot more important to me, because while it’s no fun to shoot it’s more accurate, much more compact and, generally, a far more practical hunting weapon. You’ll know which of your own possessions will be worth most in an emergency.
