I've seen two of these analyses now, and this one, by Brownell's (the mega gun-parts place) is the best. Go read it.
OK, I'll save you the trouble of reading it again...you're right, it DOES NOT MENTION firearms as Emergency Equipment, either to have on hand (Shelter in place) or to take with you (Bug Out Bag).
There are two ways to look at this omission:
- The writer believes we are smart enought to add guns in ourselves, and since mention of them is controversial, to say the least, in a major declared Emergency, he thought it better left unsaid.
- The writer somehow feels that there won't ever be a need for self-defense during a major Emergency.
On the first hand, since the title of the author's ongoing series is "Frank talk about Guns", I think that he should have "talked frankly", and NOT left it up to our imaginations to fill in the blanks.
On the second hand, if he really feels this way (no need to consider self-defense), the writer is an air-head who should never have written ANY article on surviving Armageddon.
Frank Brownell, you owe us an addendum to this article. In that addendum, you need to tell us who advised you to NOT mention firearms and their place in any Emergency scenario. If it was yourself, tell us that. We don't need another Bill Ruger in our midst, and if you are of his persuasion (selling guns, but not selling the Second Amendment) we need to know that. If it was someone else, and YOU control that person's job, fire their un-Constitutional butt NOW. If you don't control their job, at least "out" them so we can be advised, should their garbage hit the web again.
Mr. Brownell, the Second Amendment IS controversial, and none of us can afford to shy away from that controversy. If we do, each time we do, it opens a little crack in our defense of our civil right to keep and bear arms.
Let's hear from you, Mr. Brownell: as much as you might want to think it, you're NOT above the fray.