Both are solid responses. I’ll add another. Pray to the Father that he keep you through the coming times that we are told will be worse than any before and without the return of his Son, no man would survive.
Prepare for the worst, pray for the best. With man it’s not possible, a sniper can pick off a group easily no matter how many well trained pipe hitters you have, with Yah all things are possible.
Perhaps the wilderness the woman in Rev 12:6 is taken to and hidden in is your own AO.
If you're on your own, avoidance and disinformation are going to be your only valid options - staying away from/not socializing with others, and appearing to have nothing worth fighting for. If you can make it past the initial die-off, your chances increase.
But "defending" from a pack, or multiple packs as an individual, or even as a group of 3 or 4 is an exercise in futility. Just posting an effective 24/7, 360-degree guard is impossible with those numbers, longterm. Too much other stuff has to get done daily to make it sustainable.
Hope your early-warning systems pick up threats in enough time for you to get to a hidden fall-back, where you can wait things out.?Maybe keeping the bulk of your supplies at that fall-back, and getting the next day's necessities under cover of darkness? I don't think there is a "good" answer for very small groups.
Even people that claim to have solid neighbors may very quickly find out they were wrong when everything goes to crap.
War-gaming things, I approach situations from the perspective of the badguys, to help shore up defenses against them. I can think of a million ways to take out isolated groups of less than 10, with patience. It's not a pleasant thought.
I hate to say it; but this is the “”safe” answer. We all like to think we will stand up to bullies. But the stakes in this are too high; we aren’t talking about a bloody nose. The only other option is extremely disproportionate violence. I doubt there is 1% of us who are mentally, physically and strategically capable of doing this. Some might have a piece of that puzzle and will learn very hard lessons. And I am by no means stating I am part of the 1%
Both are solid responses. I’ll add another. Pray to the Father that he keep you through the coming times that we are told will be worse than any before and without the return of his Son, no man would survive.
Prepare for the worst, pray for the best. With man it’s not possible, a sniper can pick off a group easily no matter how many well trained pipe hitters you have, with Yah all things are possible.
Perhaps the wilderness the woman in Rev 12:6 is taken to and hidden in is your own AO.
If you're on your own, avoidance and disinformation are going to be your only valid options - staying away from/not socializing with others, and appearing to have nothing worth fighting for. If you can make it past the initial die-off, your chances increase.
But "defending" from a pack, or multiple packs as an individual, or even as a group of 3 or 4 is an exercise in futility. Just posting an effective 24/7, 360-degree guard is impossible with those numbers, longterm. Too much other stuff has to get done daily to make it sustainable.
Hope your early-warning systems pick up threats in enough time for you to get to a hidden fall-back, where you can wait things out.?Maybe keeping the bulk of your supplies at that fall-back, and getting the next day's necessities under cover of darkness? I don't think there is a "good" answer for very small groups.
Even people that claim to have solid neighbors may very quickly find out they were wrong when everything goes to crap.
War-gaming things, I approach situations from the perspective of the badguys, to help shore up defenses against them. I can think of a million ways to take out isolated groups of less than 10, with patience. It's not a pleasant thought.
I hate to say it; but this is the “”safe” answer. We all like to think we will stand up to bullies. But the stakes in this are too high; we aren’t talking about a bloody nose. The only other option is extremely disproportionate violence. I doubt there is 1% of us who are mentally, physically and strategically capable of doing this. Some might have a piece of that puzzle and will learn very hard lessons. And I am by no means stating I am part of the 1%