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That is what community is for. I would imagine an armed community would be in a better situation than an unarmed community or unarmed individuals.
I would say that's what the State the ultimate community) is for (police, army but also judges, doctors, laws requiring companies to implement the required safewards, ...), but I'm European, so I guess we simply see the world in very different ways.
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I would like to submit Texas' recent near grid collapse due to cold weather as exhibit A to prove that knowing about a potential problem for over a decade does not mean that a bunch of disparate private entities will do their due diligence to prevent disaster.
The grid collapsed? Then how on earth are people using power? Oh you mean energy suppliers off-lined production temporarily and most resumed operation once the storm was over. Totally the same phenomena.
Texas’ power grid was “seconds and minutes” away from a catastrophic failure that could have left Texans in the dark for months, officials with the entity that operates the grid said Thursday.
The worst case scenario: Demand for power outstrips the supply of power generation available on the grid, causing equipment to catch fire, substations to blow and power lines to go down.
https://www.texastribune.org/2021/02/18/texas-power-outages-...
This reminds me of the warnings about a coronavirus pandemic from over 10 years ago. We know from geological records that these are periodic events that happened every so often. We are due for one, and it is in our best interest to take the periodicity of nature seriously.