Matt Bracken has written about similar scenarios, and one in particular I recall dealt with dealing with roving bands of negro youths quickly and decisively. Two pickup trucks each with a driver, a spotter riding shotgun and two "snipers" in the bed, lying prone with scoped semiautomatic rifles on bipod and sandbags for protection. Each truck team meets the threat at right angles from each other, 200-400 meters out. A tarp covers the prone shooters in the bed enrout to the riot response location, upon arrival the spotter removes the tarp, drops the tailgate and the sniper on the left works from the left towards the center of the threat, the sniper on the right works from right to center, and the spotter and driver are security. With overlapping fields of fire from the two teams at right angles, the threat should be able to be addressed in minutes. Tailgate is closed, tarp is put back over the shooters, and driver drives away at the speed limit.
Based on that, you need friends, the ability to communicate, scoped rifles, vehicles and the driver and spotter would probably be best served with sidearms or other short firearms.
Based on that, you need friends, the ability to communicate, scoped rifles, vehicles and the driver and spotter would probably be best served with sidearms or other short firearms.
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For revolt against the government:
If you or your friends live in multi-level apartments with roof access, start buying bricks and taking them to the roof. Do it coverly by wrapping four bricks at a time in large bathroom towels and carry them in shopping bags or a backpack.
Unload the bricks somewhere hidden on the roof or hide them in plain sight by covering them with a tarp like they're there for legitimate building maintenance purposes.
Throw the bricks down at "enemy" vehicles when SHTF.
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Government police with military or riot gear:
Fill water balloons with a mixture of black paint and oil. Motor oil, cooking oil, it doesn't matter.
Throwing the water balloons at vehicles will make their windshields useless and windshield wipers will only make it worse.
Burst a balloon against the front and read windshields and the vehicle becomes useless.
Similarly, burst these water balloons on riot shielded "enemies" will fuck them up for several reasons:
* Transparent shields become opaque
* Enemy hands get covered in oily paint, making it difficult to hold batons or firearms.
* No enemy will risk operating a firearm after themselves and their comrades have been covered in mysterious oily stuff.
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Governments may attempt to disconnect water from towns to control the population.
Prepare by buying a 52 gallon used pickle vat for about $20:
https://files.catbox.moe/szb9ua.jpg
https://i.imgur.com/ORqPHEP.jpeg
You'll need to clean it thoroughly using a soft sponge and dish-washing detergent. Store it somewhere out of the sun. Fill it with tap water and a tiny, tiny, tiny amount of basic pool chlorine powder and close the lid. It will last forever but you'll need to re-treat the water with another does of chlorine when you open it.
https://www.epa.gov/ground-water-and-drinking-water/emergency-disinfection-drinking-water
Liquid unscented household bleach also works instead of chlorine, but I'd avoid it because it only has a six month shelf-life before it become less concentrated, whereas one cheap container of basic pool chlorine powder lasts forever.
Don't fear treating your drinking water with bleach or pool chlorine because that's effectively what the municipal water treatments plants use and what comes out of your kitchen tap.
Chlorine is poisonous, however when mixed with water, the dangerous chemicals evaporate into the air within 24 hours.
Leave the cap off your newly chlorine treated water for 12 hours to allow the smelly chemicals to evaporate into the air.
If your pickle container water smells weird when opened after several years, don't worry. It almost certainly won't be, but even if it's slimy, do not worry because a dose of chlorine will make all of that discoloration vanish like it does in your pool. All the bonus slime will be reduced to protein and vanish, which is a bonus.
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If you want to prep but don't have access to firearms, then you're fucked... however a 20oz solid claw hammer with a tight mesh wrist strap and a toolbelt hammer holder is better than nothing. The holder will allow you to comfortably take the hammer with you anywhere, the wrist strap will make the hammer impossible to be taken from you and everyone and you can fuck anyone up with one good bash to the head.
See the Self Defense card in the images below:
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