Currently it's estimated there are almost 400 million firearms in the United States, and over 50 billion rounds of ammo. Home Land Security ordered 1.5 billion rounds last year alone. It would be virtually impossible to have a firearms or ammo shortage in the ZA.

 

There are 3 days of supplies of food in local stores, but there are far, far, far more amounts on trucks that were in transit on the highway, on railroad cars in transit, in warehouses, in containers at ship yards.

Imagine the supply of everything you can buy at a Walmart that would be sitting in the average Walmart distribution center alone,(imagine a walmart 100 times as large) not to mention all the other major grocery stores and dept stores distribution centers.

 

Well that's comforting (!). How are they going to get to it?

 

Yes, trucks couldn't get to us because the road were blocked, but the roads were blocked on this show too, especially getting to the cities. Also how many survivors are there for these goods to be distributed amongst (or more accurately, looted randomly) and how are the survivors going to get to this stuff? If there are fewer survivors, the goods would last for longer, obviously. But there's no electricity storage warehouses would not be temperature controlled, so many items, especially food, would be expired or infested by now. Except for twinkies And you'd have to get past the zombies to get to any of this stuff, so it seems to me they are a never ending threat. And you'd have to constantly be traveling unless you hit a jackbox of items & can stay in one place a while. And of course, like you guys are saying, people would be a constant threat too.

Since we're on the topic, how did Rick make a sandwich in the episode with Clara? Where on earth did he get bread?

 

I must be worried about Judith & the children

If the walkers were dealt with, I could see society rebuilding. How do you think they are dwindling? Do you mean in this area on the show, or the walker population world over?

 

In a real ZA, people are going to be who they were before. There will be followers and leaders, there will be scroungers and forward thinkers, there will be hustlers.

If you ever saw the show Jericho it was similar to TWD in regard to most of civilization was gone, there was a group of bad asses lead by a hustler, they figured out really quickly that there were plenty of places where lots of stuff was stored and they went out everyday to gather it and bring it back and became very powerful because they controlled vast amounts of stuff people needed and would trade for. This is basically what would happen in the ZA. Some survivors would look to be store keepers, some would be nurses, some would be warriors, some would teach...

 

I asked this in another thread & got some answers, but walkers get weaker when they don't feed, right? The ones who were initially trapped in buildings & can't feed would eventually decay, is that correct? Or would they just be weak? I don't read the comics so the finer points of walker make up elude me.

Yes, people can be horrible and are definitely a huge threat in this ZA world, just like in real life. The more things change, the more they stay the same :/

 

Ah...a bit like communism...only in their own isolated sections

 

I hope they resolve the governor plot fast. To spend 1 and a half season on the same exact plotline would be really dull.

 

I think it could have done without the cheesy head turn, if he'd just been standing with his back to the camera sort of silhouetted against the prison it would have been more menacing.

 

When the prison group sees the Governor, it'll be like...

 

I actually think he was watching Michonne and Hershel drive off.

 

How many walkers r left in Atlanta !!!