Problems With The Zombie Apocalypse in the US

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11 years 8 months ago #19809 by LebbenB
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I like zombie movies. I like zombie games, too. But all of the ones that take place in the US have one plot problem that can't be overcome - The United States itself.

Consider 9/11 - In the immediate aftermath of the WTC disaster, common, lazy, everyday Americans (New Yorkers, at that!) chose run toward the smoke, rubble and fire rather than from it.

Flight 93 - The sheeple on board decided to die standing up with fists raised in anger rather than go mindlessly to the slaughterhouse.

I could go on and on with recent examples of American moxie in the face of adversity. A nation that entertains itself by making 1000 hp cars, racing them, blowing them up, crashing them and then rebuilding them to do it all over again is not to be trifled with. American's are made of sterner stuff than the rest of the world gives us credit for.

And then there's GUNS. It's estimated that there are over 875 million guns in the world. It's also estimated that the US has 350 million of them. (My numbers come from Small Arms Survey by the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, 2007.) ONE nation possesses almost half the guns in the world.

Innate American toughness (I know, we don't see a lot of it these days. I like to think of it as emotional concealed carry) combined with readily available firepower and a pinch of American ingenuity equals a zombie apocalypse that would last about 10 minutes. 15 minutes, tops.


I can totally understand zombies overrunning Europe - all they have to fight the living dead with are baugettes and body odor.

Season Finale of the Walking Dead tonite!

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11 years 8 months ago #19815 by Siscowet
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LebbenB wrote: I like zombie movies. I like zombie games, too. But all of the ones that take place in the US have one plot problem that can't be overcome - The United States itself.

Consider 9/11 - In the immediate aftermath of the WTC disaster, common, lazy, everyday Americans (New Yorkers, at that!) chose run toward the smoke, rubble and fire rather than from it.

Flight 93 - The sheeple on board decided to die standing up with fists raised in anger rather than go mindlessly to the slaughterhouse.

I could go on and on with recent examples of American moxie in the face of adversity. A nation that entertains itself by making 1000 hp cars, racing them, blowing them up, crashing them and then rebuilding them to do it all over again is not to be trifled with. American's are made of sterner stuff than the rest of the world gives us credit for.

And then there's GUNS. It's estimated that there are over 875 million guns in the world. It's also estimated that the US has 350 million of them. (My numbers come from Small Arms Survey by the Graduate Institute of International Studies in Geneva, Switzerland, 2007.) ONE nation possesses almost half the guns in the world.

Innate American toughness (I know, we don't see a lot of it these days. I like to think of it as emotional concealed carry) combined with readily available firepower and a pinch of American ingenuity equals a zombie apocalypse that would last about 10 minutes. 15 minutes, tops.


I can totally understand zombies overrunning Europe - all they have to fight the living dead with are baugettes and body odor.

Season Finale of the Walking Dead tonite!

:I-agree:

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11 years 8 months ago #19831 by Akai
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What's that other Zombie show where the power grids are down + Zombies and Monroe the leader of the New world order! Now, the resistance has there work cut out for them. Low on supplies, ammo,and power?
Anyhow, I'll be watching the Season Finale of the Walking Dead tonight unless the Squatchy gets me first. :cowboy:
Where did I put that Romulan Power Disruptor :banghead:

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11 years 8 months ago #19835 by Libertarian623
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Awesome stuff Leb. You made a new piece of Americana, "emotional concealed carry".

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11 years 8 months ago - 11 years 8 months ago #19840 by Sharkey
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Lebben, outSTANDING theory and synopsis however I see one scenario that we could never survive.

If only WOMEN turned into Zombies and fed on men.

Most men, knowing that it would be there ONLY chance to be with a real hot zombie babe, would gladly, especially after a few beers, risk getting chomped for a chance at some zombie trim.

It would be only a matter of time until the entire country was run by zombie women and, well, men who didn't have THAT kind of urge...

Definitely a setback for America and the only people left would be interior decorators and women who didn't care about their hair... :laugh:
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11 years 8 months ago #19860 by OleCowboy
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I would like to buy into your theory but the evidence you showed I just do not think its universal or even close.

We now have hit 59 millions Americans drawing food stamps and other assistance. Most of these are just takers in society, don't make a contribution, never have, never will. They could care less about zombies, now lets say you wanted to take away their food stamps, then you can expect a riot, anything else, they don't care. This is called rice bowlism, as long as you do not affect their rice bowl, they don't care. Now the bad news is they only care about THEIR rice bowl, your rice bowl, don't care, in fact they see you as consuming and in effect reducing the size of their rice bowl.

But their is good news, Zombies generally only kill off the stupid, lazy and worthless, so they will die soonest, but then it gives us more heads to shoot.

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11 years 8 months ago #20114 by Dabu
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:pray: Don't ever underestimate stupid people in large numbers.

:cheer: I don't think I would shoot many zombies though, I have this cool sword I'd like to try.

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