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I agree that neighbors should be encouraged to do what they can to help survive in the event of a TEOTWAWKI scenario. However, in the event such a scenario ever occurs (and I hope it never does) I think helping to arm any surviving neighbors would be prudent from a survivalist standpoint, assuming the neighbors' trustworthiness, of course. I arrived at this opinion after reading Fernando Ferfal Aguirre's book, "The Modern Survival Manual: Surviving the Economic Collapse." He wrote about his experience in Argentina after that country suffered its economic collapse in 2001. As he stated, a lot of people think that going off to some rural cabin in the wilderness and fending off for one's self will help, but I disagree. That's the last place I'd want to be because you would then leave yourself highly vulnerable as a target for roving bands of thugs intent on murder, mayhem, rape and pillaging your lone little cabin out in the middle of nowhere with no one else to help you, or worse, no one else to hear your and your family's screams if they succeed in assaulting your "stronghold" of a cabin.

By contrast, in a neighborhood type of scenario, you would at least have the opportunity of having neighbors watch each other's backs, set up guard stations and checkpoints and make sure roving bands either don't make it into the neighborhood or, if they do, don't come out alive. And in order to set something up like that, you're most likely going to have to pitch in by sharing each other's stuff, including firearms and ammo and any other weapons that may help in that effort (bows and arrows, for instance).

One other case in point would be a few of the remote villages in Mexico whose villagers eventually got fed up with the killings, kidnappings, rapes, etc. of the criminal element emboldened by the lawlessness caused by the drug cartel wars. There have been a few instances where they finally came together, got whatever arms were available, and made a stand against the bad guys. I would surmise that in order to do so, they would have had to share whatever arms they had amongst each other, especially with those whose turn it was to keep watch for the incoming SUVs of bad guys as they approached or entered their town/village. Here's a report of one such example:

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But like I said before, I do agree with the premise of encouraging one's neighbors to also be prepared. The more the entire neighborhood is prepared, the better that neighborhood will be able to survive.