Another good reason for gun rights

January 10, 2009 by
Filed under: RKBA, Safety 

Dod at American Manifesto has a great post up on a study that the National Academy of Sciences has put out.  In a nutshell, the NAS has concluded that solar storms of a sufficient intensity will do really, really bad things to our infrastructure and that the resulting chaos would be…bad.

I’d add that the probabilty of even a short term disruption having serious consequences is a very real.  Modern IT systems and logistics management methods have shortened the amount of time material sits in inventory.  Walmart, for example, literally cross loads trucks directly from suppliers to stores with no wait time in a warehouse.  That’s great…it means that everything we buy is a little bit cheaper because there is less inventory overhead.  It also means that when the suppliers trucks stop coming, there is very little play in the system to absorb the loss.  When we had our mini gas crisis here in Charlotte a few months back, we saw gas stations selling out their entire inventory in a day.  There just wasn’t enough capacity in the “pipeline” to absorb even a few days disruption.

It’s important, therefore, that you make sure that there is enough material (food, water, gas, etc) in YOUR inventory to be able to tolerate disruptions in supply.  And that you have the means to protect those supplies shoud it become necessary.

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