For a quarter ounce of gold's worth of dollars, you can buy a Defender short-barreled pump shotgun. Stick a couple shotshells in it, and you can protect the rest of the gold ounces, or the food supplies, or women.

Even better, use another ounce to buy an additional long range rifle and a few thousand rounds.

We Americans have many examples from our recent history. Travel on a horse, with a canteen and a little food and a bedroll, and live off the land. That includes the lesser-minded who think gold is all you need.

There is, right now, a great shortage of ammunition in the USA. It's all bought up. There are many more guns than families.

Americans are jerks, perhaps, but they're dangerous jerks. And they have more weapons than anybody. I think that's a very dangerous situation, and so does my recently discharged Marine Corps son, who recently lived the circumstances of societal disarray we here discuss in vague generalities.

He's very fond of being well-prepared, of course.

Align culture with our nature. Ot else!