[sub]vivalist

Any sane expert in the field of home defense will tell you: You don’t need a firearm - you need at least two, probably three. Four would be ideal. And so on.

They say this for good reasons. To sum it up, it’s that there’s a wide variety of plausible home defense scenarios, some of which are handled best by a handgun, and some of which are handled best by a shotgun. Then, of course, if things get really hairy and you need to bug out, or you need to defend your home against roving mutant zombie bikers, some kind of rifle would be great to have.

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I started Subvivalist in response to what I sense is a growing unease in America over the current state of the nation and the direction in which it’s headed. Having seen up-close the devastation and resulting disorder - from various perspectives including infrastructural, economic, and societal - caused by Hurricane Katrina in 2005, and now a lurch politically to the left with the election of Barack Obama as president, I’ve decided to combine my experience in starting and growing specific-interest blogs, and my interest in preparedness, into what I’m calling Subvivalist.

I chose the name because it reflects two guiding principles on which this site was started:

1. There are many sites out there for the hard-core survivalist, but most of them focus on the remote, rural aspect of preparedness. This site is a response to the growing interest and sense of urgency I’m getting from people in the suburbs who want to be prepared for sudden and/or profound changes in the social order, but either don’t see the need to leave their current locations, or aren’t financially able or willing to do so.

2. The kind of preparedness that’s going to be most effective for suburbanites is the kind that’s “under the radar.“ This is a place for people who want their preparations to be “hidden in plain sight.“

The goal of the site is to mine the experience and ideas of a large community; to give visitors a way to offer their expertise where they have it, and obtain it where they need it.

Welcome aboard.