In the prepper community, there’s a lot of discussion about what bad guys will do after the collapse. We hear scary talk about gangs of looters ransacking one neighborhood after another, but we don’t hear much about gangs of good guys keeping the peace. That’s what a sheep dog gang is: a group of good guys with guns who won’t tolerate lawlessness. And in America, there will be plenty of them.
Not only that, there are many types of sheep dog gangs that will form. It just depends on the type of people and part of the country where it happens. In this video, Reality Survival & Prepping explains where these gangs will come from. Here’s his list:
- Churches
- Men’s Organizations
- First Responders
- Sheriff’s Deputies
- Neighborhood Groups
- Veteran’s Groups
- Militias
- Small Towns
- Rural Farms/Ranches
- Active Military Units
Watch the video below to learn more about this topic. I found it very reassuring.
Collapse changes people, when the mask/mantle comes off, those who were once law abiding may turn rogue or one who lived on the edge of the legel system maybe a leader of a “sheepdog” out fit. We sorely underestimate survivors/preppers by lumping them into conservative/liberal, democrat/republican or urban/rural. I read an article one a prepper site “Do liberal preppers have the skill, supplies and attitude to survive…” Good read and the comments were even better.
We can observe what is going on in Venezuela. That country was very similar to ours in most ways prior to the communist take over. The communist revolution has been a catastrophic event for the general population, including the supporters of the revolution. The government operatives, including cops, soldiers, tax collectors and anyone else related to the regime are benefiting from the government budget but that average peon is now starving. There are no militias or other defense organizations to protect or assist the 95% that is left out. Hopefully, the USA will be different when the collapse happens, but I have my doubts.
Interesting. There is a lot of talk in certain circles about another pending American civil war. I’m not talking here about an attack from without, just us planning on fighting our own citizens or government. The “sheep” that need protection from the “sheepdog gangs” go about their business, as they should. Be prepared for disaster, but that should not come from within, discounting weather or nature events. The preppers cause enough commotion and angst that what they talk about, the SHTF stuff, is a self-fulfilling, foregone conclusion possibility. Are we really wanting to do battle with our own people? Who is gonna cause this supposedly imminent “collapse?” US? Is our own government and armed forces, there to serve US rather than the other way around, going to usurp the Constitution and Bill of Rights and out-and-out attack us? I find that hard to believe, but prepare for the worst and work toward the best.
We should continue to voice our opinions to our elected representatives, as inept and greedy as many of them are, and let majority rule. This republic is strong but there are SO MANY crazy people in it and it needs adjusting as we go along, not in-fighting. All opinions and reasonable input are welcomed.
This is a really good point. So many of the voices in prepperdom are the highly pessimistic who can imagine only the darkest side of Mad Max. Yes, there will be criminal opportunists and even gangs of ne’er-do-wells. We’ve got those now. But, I think you’re quite right that good-guys will band together too. They don’t have to face the bandits alone.