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Originally Posted by Edward64
FWIW, I absolutely agree with CU Tiger in first paragraph and certainly don't view him as scared.
He is north of me as far as "worse case" (e.g mine is Katrina-like) but to trust police to be there all the time is strange to me. Just different backgrounds and where you live in the country I guess.
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That's certainly a fair point. I live in a very northern city, which probably makes it hard to compare to anybody in a rural environment.
That said, I feel like the police thing is a bit of a red herring. I don't trust the police to protect me from any kind of immediate threat to my body or property either...if my home gets invaded or robbed I'm certainly not getting any real-time protection from the police, I just have someone to report it to. I absolutely rely on the police for catastrophe protection, but I still stand by the opinion that living your life in constant preparation for the impending apocalypse hardly sounds like the standard for the American Dream.