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Thanks to this incident I've had couple of few long BS sessions with friends and coworkers involving the "Zombie Apocalypse" what-if scenario. While I find such hypothetical fun to war game out, the Zombie Apocalypse isn't that scary if you happen to be an American. Here's why...
Guns. Lots and lots of guns. Depending on whose statistics you use anywhere from 1/4 to 2/3rds of the US population own at least one firearm. That's just the legal registered gun owners. The BATF estimates that there are somewhere in the neighborhood of 250 million firearms circulating in the US, enough to arm about 85% or so of the population.
As a side note, I actually put forth the idea of "are they holding a gun? No? It's probably a zombie, shoot it!" as an effecting rule of engagement in the event of a Zombie Apocalypse. This might not work out so well with the slightly smarter zombies in Romero's latest films (all of which are terrible), where the zombies start to show the ability to use tools, including firearms. Sure, they're not very good shots, but it caused me to revise my Zombie Apocalypse RoE to "Is it holding a gun? No. Ok, is it displaying safe firearms handling? No? Then shoot it, it's either a zombie or a dumbass that shouldn't be handling guns anyway."
What this means is that a zombie outbreak here wouldn't last long. In fact, had the Florida incident actually been the case zero of a zombie outbreak the Apocalypse was ended when the responding officer put two into the zombie's dome.
Now, you guys down there in Australia... Yeah, you're pretty much boned thanks to retarded firearms restrictions.
In closing, Guns=Good, Zombies=Bad. You don't want to support the Zombie Apocalypse, do you?
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