Hi everybody! I'm an old LNL as well. I guess what turned me on to the Prepping Lifestyle started out with getting armed robbed back in 2005 by two big dudes, and I fought back and barely came out alive. I learned the world really isn't a safe place and YES it CAN happen to YOU. Since then, I always carried a firearm. I met a guy who taught me you could carry on your person outside your home with a license in my State, so I started to get more and more into firearms. He is and was also into prepping slightly. I found a firearm forum where I learned more about prepping and eventually I ran into a LNL video somehow. Well that got me to the LNL forum and more into prepping and the mentality. Then I found a whole bunch of other good preppers and prepping tips online. After the last economic crash, that opened up my eyes that everything again, isn't always what it seems. Since then I was an all out prepper and also, a firearm lover. Also, somewhere in there I lost my Authoritarian ways and became a Libertarian as well. Now I'm an absolute freedom addict. I prep for uncertain financial possibilities in the economy and my family.