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July 13, 2010
Is Bruce Webster Drinking the Kool-Aid?
Glenn Reynolds points to Bruce Webster's one-page disaster preparedness checklist.
Bruce cobbled together a little politically expedient list of emergency preparedness. It includes, among other things:
- At least two battery-powered or hand-cranked radios.
- At least one flashlight for every room.
- Several complete changes of batteries for the radios and flashlights.
- Buy a good-sized first-aid kit and pick up a practical book on first aid.
- But (sic) a book on home treatment of illnesses and other medical conditions.
It goes on and on. But it doesn't include some obvious things...matches, lighter, compass, knife, hatchet. OK. Granted, you could say "well, you can't expect him to get everything in a one page disaster preparedness guide." Well, true enough. But what about a gun?
A firearm is something that no person should ever leave off of an emergency preparedness list. You need, at a minimum, one 12 gauge shotgun and 10 boxes of ammo for it (250 rounds). An improvement on that would be to have 1 rifle, 1 shotgun, and 1 pistol, and a thousand rounds of ammo for each.
The gun can be used for self defense, for hunting, or just for peace of mind. There are a lot of valid reasons to have a gun on any day of the week, let alone in a disaster or an emergency.
This one critical element is so vitally important that you can't make a disaster preparedness list without it and expect to be taken seriously. If you leave the gun off, then there's no point in making a list. This glaring omission means that either:
a) Bruce is being politically expedient at your expense or
b) Bruce is a glassy-eyed liberal who truly doesn't understand how critical a firearm is in a disaster.
Either way is unacceptable. And it isn't like he shouldn't know better. He wrote an emergency preparedness book for Y2K, of all things: The Y2K Survival Guide: Getting To, Getting Through, and Getting Past the Year 2000 Problem
I hope that I live near some liberal tree-hugging suckers that follow Bruce's advice. Maybe I should add a few things to his list like a bacon-stretcher, egg-popper, and a left-handed smoke-shifter and then distribute it to my neighbors. I'll stuff copies of "Bruce Webster's Official Emergency/Disaster Preparedness" lists into their mailboxes by the light of the moon. Then, I'll know for sure that if things ever do go south, my neighbors will have everything I need except guns and ammo. ;)
Posted by Rob Kiser on July 13, 2010 at 9:02 PM
Comments
I love it when you show your true colors, I hope the people that live near you read this so they can pop your @ss when they see you coming
Posted by: Shelby on July 14, 2010 at 9:08 AM
I have very cool neighbors. And, for the record, we'll all armed to the teeth. A firearm is something that, if you need it once, and don't have it, you probably won't need it again. Come up here and find out about it, tree-hugger.
Posted by: Rob Kiser on July 15, 2010 at 4:20 PM