What have done towards your prep?

[Easy rider]

Skean you are quite right we have become soft ,accepting weak and unable in the main to combat many threats to us in society today.our leaders have civilised us for want of a better word leading us to the slaughter of those who come to prey upon easy pickings who have no worry in using weapons knives guns or respect for women children .
Unfortunately police law no longer protects us if in fact it ever did. Their are risks as mentioned befriending these rebels but true again benefits.finding the right ones won't be easy if at all.

Then again whilst we may consider some of our friends safe reliable useful in tshtf they too may surprise you, neighbours may be our biggest threat even though we will need in certain situ their combined numbers for effort and security of our immediate area so is contradictory possibly.
Unfortunately we won't know what now when until it happens.if like to think I can trust several but On far lesser things than our survival trust has been broken.differences of opinion ,small fall outs under stressful situations will soon show our vulnerabilities well.