Just take baby steps. Try to get out of the city eventually or even to a small lot in town that has some sun exposure and some space for some raised beds. In the meantime see if there’s any borrowable growing space and a reliable alternate water source you could use in your immediate area to do a couple raised beds or a small community coop plot. Even start on your balcony if you must.

Firearms aren’t a must, and if you haven’t been raised in a culture where you’ve had lots of exposure to them, you need safety training. Maybe someday you will be be able to move to a jurisdiction that permits their use as tools for gathering food, if not for self defence. In the meantime, improvise, take a safety course on firearms and explore legal options. Learn about 3D printed options. But weigh risks with the laws in your country. You can’t be much of a provider behind bars. In the meantime make yourself the weapon. Train Jiu Jitsu and get your kids and wife into it. It’s literally the best thing you can expose a young person too for lifetime confidence, fitness, and practical self-defense.

If you have kids, a good way to introduce libertarian ideas into the home in the background that everybody in earshot will absorb is to watch the Tuttle Twins series on Angel Studios. It’s a cartoon series aimed at kids that talks about concepts of freedom, liberty, and sound money.

Baby steps.

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So geographically where I live and to do what you have mentioned is actually more unsafe than safe..

Here the hostility against people who live on farms and bigger pieces of land is worse than in the “city”

So weighing the safety vs freedom option up.

So I have I’d say a 7/10 ability with guns as I have been exposed but on private hunting farms and friends who have them (cops and medics)

Ideally if it gets like Venezuela or Zimbabwe then moving is unfortunately the only option..

I’ll try my best to home school because I was home schooled not for any other reason than I hated teachers and I wanted to play a professional sport..

Stay strong. I forget sometimes that there are jurisdictions in the world where daily personal physical safety (and not just safety from authoritarianism) is a reality. Best to make a long term plan to get out and get that dealt with if you can. It might be a tall order, but you deserve to be able to walk down the street and roam the countryside without fear of violence. God bless.

So where I live which is pretty obvious to figure out is bad but not bad which is weird..

Like I work and travel around a fair bit and don’t every feel threatened because I have been brought up here knowing what to look for..

Like an example is when driving through a town - don’t have any electronics anywhere near you. They smash and grab stuff (I’ll post a video I got from a drone)

Ironically I had a kidnapping experience in a gated community where people were paid off to look the other way - and what saved my life was my buddy who walked out 2 mins after the whole thing happened had his weapon and the people doing what they were left theirs in there car..

So yeah- knife’s edge but the USA is also bad either way guns with fuck heads just going mad.. so I am definitely pro gun but not worth it here