I believe that if I want to be safe and secure in my rights, freedoms, liberties, and life…

I must have the following seven "G's" in abundance…

GOD
Spirituality - Morality, ethics, values, faith, reverence, selflessness, sacrifice, service, balance, humility, charity, benevolence, love for God, love for your fellow man, love for yourself.

GUNS
Defense & Hunting – Steel & Lead – Firearms & Experience… to defend, to hunt, to protect, to carry, to trade.  A long-range hunting rifle, a standard shotgun, a small-game rifle and handgun, a defensive rifle, a defensive handgun.  Specifically, I recommend a Savage .308, a Mossberg 12GA shotgun, a Ruger 10/22, a .22 revolver, like a Taurus, a Glock in a .40 or 9mm, and an AR-15-type .223 rifle.  Have you considered ammunition, reloading supplies, and extra parts?  Stainless Steel does not rust.  .308 and .30-06 are easier to get than other bullets.  9mm easier than .40 and others.  What about archery equipment?  Then, lots of training and practice and experience!
 
GRUB
Food – Water – Supplies: Food storage, food supplies, ingredients, spices, herbs, garden, recipes, know-how, preparedness, enough for 1 year.  Rotate food storage so it does not waste.  Buy canned food that come packed in water or juice, and use that liquid for soups and stews.  Dried goods are fine, but do you have enough water?  MRE (Meal Ready to Eat) are also handy.  Like “GOLD” diversification is the key.  To you have water-treatment tabs?  Bleach?  Is you food dependent on freezers and electricity?  Get a dehydrator and learn to dry meats and fruits.  Include with your goods dried milk, vitamins, medicine, baby needs, extra glasses, contact solution, feminine hygiene needs, etc.  But remember my saying: “For every spoonful of food, two bullets to defend it!” -Edward Wilks

GOLD
Financial Strength – Gold, Silver, Cash – Gold bullion, silver coins, cash reserves.  Diversified funds.  Little or no debt.  Specifically, tenth-ounce gold bullion coins.  Large, one-ounce coins cost too much ($1000 each) and cannot be easily divided when smaller denominations are needed.  More smaller, over fewer larger.  Next, silver.  One-ounce silver coins or “rounds.”  Old US gold and silver coins work, but may have more collectible value than bullion worth.  Sell those on eBay for the big amounts, and get more bullion.  Have cash in 1, 5, 10, and 20 bills.  What kind of stock or mutual fund do you have?  Too much?  Not enough?  This isn’t just “End of the Word” type wisdom.  Think about road closures, ice storms, and power outages.  Your local grocery store may begin to run out of food (See Grub) or lose power, but would set up a cashier with a calculator.  Are you really going to use a Twenty-dollar Gold Piece to buy beans?  If banks go under, out, or close during riots or emergencies, where do you get your cash?  Do you have any stashed away at home?  What good is all that if you have so much debt you get evicted and your storage is lost or destroyed?  Gold, silver, cash, no debt.

GAS
Fuel – Gasoline, automotive fuel, propane, camping fuel, oils and kerosene for lamps and lanterns, candles, matches, firewood, etc.  Keep your car’s tank at least 1/2 full.  Do you have enough gas to go get your family stranded in the next town?

GROUND
Castle – Have a home or some land that you own.  Your own property.  A place where you can make a stand and defend your family, and all of the other “G’s”  This is common sense.  Again, if debt or landlords evict you or default on the property themselves, how does that affect you?

GUMPTION
1. initiative; aggressiveness; resourcefulness:
2. courage; spunk; guts:
3. common sense; shrewdness.

Acumen, acute, adept, agile, alert, apt, astute, astuteness, balanced, bold, brains, brave, bright, calculating, capable, caution, cautionary, circumspection, clear thinking, clever, common sense, compelling, competent, comprehension, courageous, creative, daring, dauntless, discerning, discriminating, dominant, dynamic, efficacious, energetic, enlightenment, erudition, experience, experienced, fearless, foresight, gallant, grit, heroic, imaginative, impressive, information, insightful, intelligent, intrepid, inventive, judgment, judiciousness, keen, knowledge, learning, nimble, pansophy, penetration, perceptive, perspicacious, poise, powerful, practical, practicality, prudent, quick, rational, ready, reasonable, responsible, robust, sagacious, sageness, sanity, sapience, savvy, smart, sophisticated, stable, stalwart, strong, thoughtful, understanding, valorous, vigorous, wise.

The opposite of: careless, cowardly, foolish, idiotic, ignorant, imbecilic, impotent, inexperienced, incapable, ineffective, stupid, unintelligent, weak.

May I end by saying…     You can have all the gold or food you want, but if you cannot defend it, you will get your family killed and empower bad men.  And, without God - or some proper morality or ethos - you will simply become corrupt.  You might think other items are more important, but without firearms and skill, they (bad guys or government) will take away your religion, your money, your food, your home, your freedoms, your family…