<I must confess that I find the entire scenario to be somewhat contradictory and confusing >
same here i'm not understanding it:
<We certainly do not need weapons. In a post apocalyptic world everybody, and their grandmother, has weapons>
why? just because society collapses it means suddenly everyone gets a gun? where have all these weapons come from? and doesn't that mean you DO need them?
<any equipment still working is at least forty-years-old.>
why? what apocalypse only destroys equipment less than 40 years old?
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