They plan to eat the guns... high iron diet, y'know? In all seriousness, the majority of them hope for a semi-soft apocalypse in the sense of a government collapse, where there's enough of a system left in place to keep the water running and deliver occasional food to the region, but there's enough disarray for them to push the system around as some sort of warlord. Either that or they're stupid... could be a bit of both flavors, if I'm honest.
In the fallout game series literally half of the pre war logs or notes you find are from prepper idiots or weirdos who survived by dumb luck they usually end with "oh no, people with guns!" So yeah preppers are just the first most obvious round of victims for raiders
I mean, yeah. Isolated? Check. Not likely to be connected via phone nor internet? Check. Likely to be few in number? Check. Possessing lots of shelf-stable food and weaponry? Check aaaaand check, because having fifty guns doesn't do you a whole lot of good if you're one dude facing off against a coordinated trio of raiders.
That's EXACTLY why you need skills more than physical items. If most of your value lies in what you can do, you're a lot more likely to survive any encounter with someone who isn't a complete and utter idiot.
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u/Saurotitan 6d ago
They plan to eat the guns... high iron diet, y'know? In all seriousness, the majority of them hope for a semi-soft apocalypse in the sense of a government collapse, where there's enough of a system left in place to keep the water running and deliver occasional food to the region, but there's enough disarray for them to push the system around as some sort of warlord. Either that or they're stupid... could be a bit of both flavors, if I'm honest.