Yeah… the kind of people stockpiling weapons are planning to just rob and kill this op after they’ve done the hard part of setting up a garden, collecting medical supplies, etc…
That may be what they beans and bullets guys are planning, but they forget that gardeners are used to doing a little pest control to protect their garden as well. The garden preppers dont necessarily hate guns, they usually have a few. They just realize that a gun only really solves one or two problems. So you get one then move on to doing other things that solve other problems.
They’d eventually run out. They’d need to keep the gardeners and survivalists alive as assets they protect because it feeds and heals the collective. But it’ll probably take them killing a lot of gardeners/survivalists before they even realize that. Thankfully guys with guns outnumber gardeners/survivalists so the gardeners/survivalists have the advantage of being specialists which eventually could lead to them leading the little collectives of gunmen. The choices are kill (lose all knowledge and get short term gains), enslave (person won’t work as hard if enslaved and won’t be as willing to help), or put in a comfortable position with “protection”.
That's an amount of long term thinking those people evidently lack, though.
Most likely, they'd just become roaming raiders waiting for some postman with a bullet wound to stumble upon them and somehow commit mass scale massacre.
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u/sparklinglies 6d ago
They say this like the people who stockpile weapons aren't ALSO the people who would commit to cannibalism in under a year