Well,

I'm gonna be careful here because I don't want this to turn into a gun or second amendment discussion. If we wanna do that, we can head on over to packing.org and find plenty of interested folks to discuss it. That being said, I pretty much agree with everything you said.

I do want to point out that my listing of a firearm as a survival tool has more to do with hunting game or dissuading looters from coming onto my property. I agree that proactively dealing with terrorists could be very satisfying, but not very likely.

In this thread, I was hoping to compile as complete of a list as possible. So I was hoping to get ideas from everyone else about things that should have made the list, but didn't. Not everybody will value the same things we do (like firearms), but I'd still like to hear their ideas as a way to get me thinking about all the options.

But I did enjoy reading your post!

Ben