Preventing and Surviving Rape in TEOTWAWKI

This is not a happy topic. At an e-mailer’s request and already on my mind, we will review some cold hard facts about a very uncomfortable subject matter. Nearly every post-collapse movie or book that is produced will touch on the reality that criminals resort quickly to raping people. It’s just what they do…that is the reality. It can bee seen in fictional dystopian movies: The Road Warrior, The Book of Eli (one of my favorites), A Clockwork Orange (one of the most disturbing rape scenes), and others reference the increase in rapes with the breakdown of society. This is also evident in countless post-apocalyptic and dystopian books: The Stand, Patriots, the Left Behind series among others. Real life examples? Hurricane Katrina demonstrated this reality all too well in the Superdome rapes. The breakdown of law and order in African countries and eastern Europe. Every historical account of wartime ever. Now that we have established that this is reality, let’s get to the topics issues: prevention and treatment.

Prevention is number 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9 on the top ten issues about rape in a TEOTWAWKI situation. Guns deter rapists. Guns kill rapists. That’s pretty much the end of the prevention lecture. All preppers know that unarmed women and girls (along with everyone else that is unarmed) are going to be “easy pickins” for criminals. And, as mentioned above, criminals tend to rape as a sick outlet of their inferior minds and abilities. So, in dealing with rape prevention, there is one simple rule: superior firepower is the best possible prevention. Always walking in pairs or groups is not a prevention tool, as there will be large groups of criminals that will easily be able to overpower smaller groups of unarmed folks. It is never a woman that is responsible in any way for a rape they suffer. But, sometimes it is a woman’s naivety or overestimation of her own present security that puts her in harms way. Don’t be that woman. With the structure of society and a 911 police backup around us, most of the time whistles, sprays, and proper self defense training can be effective deterrents to rapes. Without the structure of society around us, that ratio will change radically.

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