Black Friday store rushes and violence certainly is something unique in society.  

When you really think about it, its almost impossible to duplicate in a real survival situation.  By the stores artificially creating the crisis and more importantly controlling the timing, its all so surreal.  Its almost impossible to come up with a survival scenario that has that many people rushing to the store at that exact timing and then waiting on the doors to open.  It throws "If you can think of it, 1,000 others already have"  to the wind.  

The problem is any scenario that has warning, the timing would be staggered.and any scenario without warning, the store will not be most people first thought.  About anyone who's ever lived through a direct hit hurricane can tell you, "It'll all be gone before you think of even going to the store."  Anybodies who's ever lived through a tornado can tell you, "Gee I need batteries for my flashlight" is not your first priority."  

You want to be scared?  Those people aren't fighting over that 60" TV.  That's almost understandable, almost. That's not what they are fighting over.  They're fighting over a perceived slight.  Its not about that TV or whatever anymore.  Its that perceived slight that gives the relative morality lot in life the excuse their moral justification for what they know there is none.  That "slight" is more often than not preconceived and crosses boundaries that rational people can't believe.  There's economic, racial, gender, and ethnic reasons.  You don't have to say a thing, do a thing, to be a target.  

What I'm getting at here guys is the problem is this relative morality thing to start with, this putting emotions before all else, and its the same thing that prevents people from putting food back.  They don't want to have to deal with the emotional reality of they may need it.  I mean really a bag of rice or block of Ramen noodles is chump change.  The cost really isn't the issue.  

You see the problem is not convincing someone they should prep but are they worth convincing?  It's like the "Why should I prep?  Things go bad, I'm coming to your house."  That coming to your house can be quite problematic depending on who.  

Finding someone you can help along that's already made the decision is pretty easy.  Finding someone who hasn't made the decision but will is like finding gold in a creek bed.  More likely than not, you going to have to mine that hole for years.  

Last years blizzard, watching my nephew run out to pay a premium to buy a generator, use the auxiliary heat and lighting I gave him, the 4x4 I bought to rush out and buy food, then post about how prepared he was on Facebook, I didn't know whether to laugh or cry.  The whole time, we didn't have anything to post about.  Those first days, we just sat at home, warm and fed. I've been mining that gold mine for three decades now.  

Good luck finding the who to show those tapes to.

Tj

Not really.  The Black Friday mess is driven by competition and not really need at all, while in any scenario short of some fantasy "World War Z' scenario, in a real crisis by the time the need is even apparent, there will be nothing to fight over in the stores.  It's more a matter of timing.  The whole violent rush on stores scenario is about as far fetched as aliens make guns obsolete and everyone has to use swords.  It's fiction.  

The real risk is, even now with no EOTWAWKI event, in having what others don't and though it can be based on need, typically it doesn't have a thing to do with need but perceived "Slight" what we think of often as entitlement.  

What we do by preparing is the easy part.  Keeping it is the hard part.  You would be surprised how many people can't even say "no" let alone handle "no" with compassion.  

Its really best to not look at this like the sale hunter ourselves  It really has nothing to do with what the other guy needs but what we need and any extra to be used to help out the other guys needs.