Walking Dead Thread ***SPOILERS***

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(03-08-2017, 05:28 AM)JustWinBaby Wrote: Anyway.....there's 300M guns in the US - how hard can it be to find some in the zombie apocalypse?  They are literally just laying around in the grass.  Probably like 1000 guns per survivor!

Likely even more than that. The DC metro area has a population of about 6m, and the 4 largest communities, that presumably encompass most survivors in the area, have maybe a combined 500 people (200 in Hilltop, the Kingdom has less but more than Alexandria, and then the Sanctuary and Alexandria with a little less). 

That's a survival rate of about .008%. Let's assume there's maybe another 500 or so living in isolation alone in the area, that's a survival rate of .016%. So you have a population of 319,000,000 dwindled down to about 50,000. Nearly 6,000 guns per person left! That doesn't include military firearms. Then there is product that hasn't sold at manufacturers. 

(03-08-2017, 10:24 AM)michaelsean Wrote: And it's a big damn country.  Really don't need to hang out in DC.

(03-08-2017, 11:21 AM)WeezyBengal Wrote: Thats kind of always been my beef with the show. 

You dont like how this new guy Negan is treating you? Thats fine, just pack up all of the stuff you don't have and leave town. Drive down to Florida and hang out near the coast. Find a nice big empty mansion in Palm Beach and hang out in it. 

I mean I know its a TV show, but cmon. 

They've traveled from Atlanta to Frederick, MD before finding a scout from DC (Don't ask me how they somehow missed DC and go to Frederick, but it happened). This was the first time they found a community. It's possible that they saw signs of communities on their way (besides the small group of cannibals) but avoided them because of their "mission" from Eugene, but there's no mention of it. 

I'm gonna suggest there aren't a lot of options to move to. This is a space that has been cleared, there's plenty of amenities, and they're the safest now than they have ever been.