When TSHTF, who should we arm first: homeless or prisoners?

Originally posted by Kangaruex4Ewe
Neither. Americans need to exercise their second amendment right while they can still do so legally.

They can then atleast attempt to protect themselves and their families, instead of waiting for the government to rescue them. We have seen time and again how well that works.

I feel like when TSHTF the government will attempt to round up all citizen owned weaponry to have for themselves. To better protect us though so no worries...

It would be logistical nightmare for the government to attempt to round up every civilian owned weapon in America. As it stands, right now there are 311,000,000 people in the United States. Of them, an estimated 250,000,000 own at least one firearm.

With the available manpower, it would take decades to round up all those guns. And then gun owners would just hide their guns or resist, turning the confiscation procedures into a bloodbath.

No, more likely, if you wanted to shut down gun ownership, you would stop the mass production of ammunition. This would mean that only a handful of people would be able to produce their own with reloading equipment, so long as the gunpowder, primer and projectiles are available. And the average joe would be out of luck.