I've gleaned quite a bit of good info from FerFal for years now....
However, Argentina is a completely, totally different country. From grass roots economics, to education, as well as a peasant/serf/noble/rich class culture its night and day to the US. FerFal's insight is also from a urban perspective. The working class, or any class in Argentina isn't even as close to being armed as the US. With so many differences from the ground up its very hard to pull direct comparison's.
The rancher's and farmer's here are often veterans, more often than not armed, and in most cases very close with neighbors. I've seen first hand what happens when outlaws (tweakers/car thiefs/rustlers), visit ranches and farms. I've watched a truck thief call 9-11 on himself he-he...while he was pinned down in a ditch by a mob of neighbors. The deputy who arrived about a hour later, just laughed and used a loud-hailer to coax the dummy out'a the creek. And promised the shooting would stop. The rounds down range were just to keep him in the ditch. I guess the guy musta got tired of hitchhiking from the freeway. Our elected LEO's, here at least, either grew up on ranches or own one. I hate to think what would'a happened if the thief had been better armed, or had hurt somebody. ..D-E-D, dead... We as in all the neighbors monitor all the car traffic up and down the roads here. You can see a truck coming from miles and miles away, and at night even further.
So the rural aspect to FerFal, I'm afraid in my situation, won't apply. You can argue all you want about raiders, but its a long, long, way's to any real city where I'm stationed. I worry a lot more of being federalized to feed city people.-WW
ps. But glean what you can there are some good urban tips that could help save you someday.