So what do you need to do before zombies…or hurricanes or pandemics for example, actually happen? First of all, you should have an emergency kit in your house. This includes things like water, food, and other supplies to get you through the first couple of days before you can locate a zombie-free refugee camp (or in the event of a natural disaster, it will buy you some time until you are able to make your way to an evacuation shelter or utility lines are restored). Below are a few items you should include in your kit, for a full list visit the CDC Emergency page.
•Water (1 gallon per person per day)
•Food (stock up on non-perishable items that you eat regularly)
•Medications (this includes prescription and non-prescription meds)
•Tools and Supplies (utility knife, duct tape, battery powered radio, etc.)
•Sanitation and Hygiene (household bleach, soap, towels, etc.)
•Clothing and Bedding (a change of clothes for each family member and blankets)
•Important documents (copies of your driver’s license, passport, and birth certificate to name a few)
•First Aid supplies (although you’re a goner if a zombie bites you, you can use these supplies to treat basic cuts and lacerations that you might get during a tornado or hurricane)
No argument here with any of the items on that list. It's what is not on it that gives one pause, if the intent was to take advantage of pop culture's strange affinity for zombies, as a way to highlight the importance of preparing for a wide variety of potential real disasters, shouldn't self-defense be part of the plan? When social order has broken down, who but ourselves will protect us? Not the police--we have already seen that if they're still around to play any role at all, that role might be as the killers themselves.
Any disaster preparedness plan that does not include the means to protect one's family and oneself is badly flawed--potentially fatally flawed.
Kurt Hofmann St. Louis Gun Rights Examiner.
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