Ask HN: Have you done / plan to do any basic “prepping” (tinned food etc)

Re:Ask HN: Have you done / plan to do any basic “prepping” (... by Ensorceled on Sunday November 13, 2016 @05:50PM (#12946191)

Seriously? You've just changed the scenario completely.

If the person trying to steal my beans will go away if I say "stop I have a gun" or simply barricade my door then I'm sure as hell not shooting them. It's a last resort.

I am hoping to never need to use my emergency kit again.

Also, you should talk to cops about pepper spray, tasers, etc. and how often they fail.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you done / plan to do any basic “prepping” (... by peterwwillis on Sunday November 13, 2016 @06:12PM (#12946325)

And you should talk to cops about the effectiveness of attackers with blades against a trained officer with a holstered weapon closer than 21 feet. But both those and the pepper spray/taser fails are outliers, they are not the norm.

In a last resort, I don't want my attacker using my weapon against me, and if they can, I don't want it to be fatal. Which is why I don't carry knives for self defense, even though i'm trained in eskrima.

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Re:Ask HN: Have you done / plan to do any basic “prepping” (... by Ensorceled on Sunday November 13, 2016 @06:48PM (#12946495)

This is getting into absurd levels of hypotheticals so I'm tapping out.

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