WHAT TO DO IF YOU’RE TRAPPED ON THE HIGHWAY LIKE SO MANY FOLKS IN LOUISIANA?

I keep a trouble bag in the back of my car, with food and water (lifeboat rations that nobody would ever eat unless they had to, plus a few snacks), a flashlight, emergency blankets, glow sticks, matches, a spare set of glasses, a change of socks and underwear, tampons (also good for gunshot wounds), and a Field Trauma Kit. I think I’m going to add a tourniquet.

Before anyone asks, I don’t keep a gun in the trouble bag. It’s too hard to access, and since I only check it occasionally to rotate out stuff that’s expired, I wouldn’t notice if someone stole it. But you should have a gun on hand if you can, though if you’re traveling interstate, benighted jurisdictions with criminally-strict gun laws may make that difficult, which is why we need national carry legislation.