Interesting question

[Underwhere]

A friend is in grad school writing a paper and recently got his LTC.
He has been reading alot about Jefferson and his ideals.

He posed the question:

"If Martial law was all of a sudden declared. What you do? Where would you go?"

I'm curious what some of your responses would be.

 

[appraiser]

I'd get home, I'd get to my safe, arm myself and my wife, get to other family members to make sure they were safe and arm them too

 

[Larry Legend]

Drive home immediately (home to VT, not my apt in MA). Load up my deer rifles, shotguns, .22 rifles, and my new XD. Gather with a few close friends and neighbors and hunker down.

 

[KilgoreTrout]

Cue fainting goats

Lay low, stay calm, load magazines.

 

[lord1234]

I'd get home, I'd get to my safe, arm myself and my wife, get to other family members to make sure they were safe and arm them too

ditto, i thankfully work less then 4 miles from home in a no-traffic area.

 

[EddieCoyle]

I'd loot.

 

[icyclefar]

I'd loot.

I'll watch your back, now we just need a driver .............

 

[BruceW]

just remember the 3 L's and your golden

Lock...Load...Loot

 

[Cross-X]

Go home, gear up, snag a few cases of ammo, grab the wife and pets, and get the hell out of Boston!

 

[Hiltonizer]

-top priority is getting the wife home from wherever she is...
-if possible, pick up extra food/water and misc supplies
-hunker down in the house, from the 2nd floor where I can watch out the windo. (To make sure I have advanced notice that someone is coming to take us for "re-education")

 

[theGringo]

I'd loot the packy. No sense in hunkerin' down unless you got hooch.

 

[richc]

I'll head to our vacation home in Canada. I'm glad I bought that place when I did.

Rich

 

[Ray-500]

-top priority is getting the wife home from wherever she is...
-if possible, pick up extra food/water and misc supplies
-hunker down in the house, from the 2nd floor where I can watch out the windo. (To make sure I have advanced notice that someone is coming to take us for "re-education")

Could not have said it better. My wife and I are almost always together. In the event we are not, agree with your scenario.

 

[Rate_of_Twist]

wife, kids, guns, dog, -----------> VT

 

[Ray-500]

I'd get home, I'd get to my safe, arm myself and my wife, get to other family members to make sure they were safe and arm them too

No argument at all....agree 100%

 

[DickWanner]

I'll watch your back, now we just need a driver .............

Word, I'm game

 

[terraformer]

I'd loot the packy. No sense in hunkerin' down unless you got hooch.

Just stay out of Jeremy's place. He would make these guys (starting 1:00 in) look like airsofters...

 

[Ray-500]

Word, I'm game

Grin, no driver needed. Will not leave my home.

 

[richc]

I'd loot the packy. No sense in hunkerin' down unless you got hooch.

This reminds me of one of my uncles. When he died he had most of his net worth tied up in Schlitz beer. The guy could not tell you what day it was, but he knew to the can how much beer he had.



Rich

 

[45collector]

I'd give Fred a call.

 

[JoeyB]

Much of what everyone else said. Stay off of the main roads. I'd make some phone calls and meet up with certain people.

 

[jhblaze1]

I'll watch your back, now we just need a driver .............

I'm in if we can make a stop at best buy.

 

[clinotus]

Living on the western part of the state, I wouldnt do anything more than perhaps keep a few arms within reach. The National Guard at that point would have hopefully blown the springfield and holyoke bridges and set the cities aflame under the guise of keeping Martial Law.

So maybe I'd have a beer and throw marshmallows over the river.

 

[jhblaze1]

I'll head to our vacation home in Canada. I'm glad I bought that place when I did.

Rich

I could be wrong, but I don't think you'd be able to drive all the way to canada and cross an international border while the US was under martial law.

 

[Ray-500]

This reminds me of one of my uncles. When he died he had most of his net worth tied up in Schlitz beer. The guy could not tell you what day it was, but he knew to the can how much beer he had.



Rich

He was fixated on an object...and held to it. Are you fixated on Liberty as much as your uncle was fixated on Schlitz ?

 

[Negotiator]

Go home, hunker down, wait it out. Wife is a good shot , we have the necessary to wait it out with some good neighbours if need be. I would not leave the house...well stocked booze and supply

 

[EddieCoyle]

I'd stay home. I'll make a deal with my gun-hating, food-hoarding neighbor: I'll let her have some of her food if she cleans my house.

 

[calsdad]

I would go into my backyard, kick in one of my basement windows, crawl thru the window, hack a hole in my safe and jimmy open the door. Then I would take a bunch of the pistols and rifles - grind off the serial numbers, and load up my car and head towards certain parts of Boston. Once there I would freely distribute said firearms and sufficient ammunition to keep them going for a while.

The resulting chaos in Boston would surely be enough to keep any NG or other police or military forces busy enough that they wouldn't have sufficient resources to screw with the rest of us.

Then I would find where EddieCoyle was and join his band of merry looters.

 

[Twigg]

Throw the AK in the rifle rack of my truck and set up a roadblock at the border on Rt 202 with the citizen's militia. Turn back any vehicle without a NES sticker.

 

[Ray-500]

Go home, hunker down, wait it out. Wife is a good shot , we have the necessary to wait it out with some good neighbours if need be. I would not leave the house...well stocked booze and supply

Grin, my sentiments exactly...and yes, my wife is a goood shot.