Joe Demko
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Scenario 1: The dead rise from the grave to feast on the flesh of the living. In this situation, I would need my automatic rifle to destroy the zombies' brains. Particularly after they have sensed your presence and begin showing up in numbers, you need the volume of fire and speed of delivery that only a high capacity automatic rifle can deliver. Although they aren't quite the same thing, plague zombies can be effectively handled in a similar fashion.
Scenario 2: Spikey-haired Mutants riding motorcycles and dune buggies invade my neighborhood with the intention of sodomizing everybody to death, then cannibalizing them. Once again, speed and volume of fire are important. Just as important, though, is the capability to effectively engage and defeat thin-skinned vehicles. Shotguns, pistol-caliber carbines, and handguns are going to come up short against an armada of dune buggies with harpoon launchers on their backs. The spikey-haired mutants themselves are known to wear various types of field-expedient armor eg. black-painted fottball pads, so the additional penetration of a rifle is a real plus.
Scenario 3: They (you do know who "they" are, don't you?) successfully initiate their plan to alter the cellular architecture of our brains by contaminating the potable water supplies with nanobots. The nanobots receive their instructions and power from cell phones. That's why they're called cell phones. Everybody who drinks potable water and talks on a cell phone becomes a tool of the Conspiracy. Don't be a tool. In this situation, a rifle is far less useful than adequate supplies of cider vinegar and a knowledge of the sinister signifigance of pancakes. Nonetheless, I can forsee a need for the rifle if They recognize me as a nexus of The Resistance. One of those .50 BMG rifles might be just the ticket for destruction of key cell towers if a particular region still had a rescuable population with unaltered brain cell architecture.
Scenario 2: Spikey-haired Mutants riding motorcycles and dune buggies invade my neighborhood with the intention of sodomizing everybody to death, then cannibalizing them. Once again, speed and volume of fire are important. Just as important, though, is the capability to effectively engage and defeat thin-skinned vehicles. Shotguns, pistol-caliber carbines, and handguns are going to come up short against an armada of dune buggies with harpoon launchers on their backs. The spikey-haired mutants themselves are known to wear various types of field-expedient armor eg. black-painted fottball pads, so the additional penetration of a rifle is a real plus.
Scenario 3: They (you do know who "they" are, don't you?) successfully initiate their plan to alter the cellular architecture of our brains by contaminating the potable water supplies with nanobots. The nanobots receive their instructions and power from cell phones. That's why they're called cell phones. Everybody who drinks potable water and talks on a cell phone becomes a tool of the Conspiracy. Don't be a tool. In this situation, a rifle is far less useful than adequate supplies of cider vinegar and a knowledge of the sinister signifigance of pancakes. Nonetheless, I can forsee a need for the rifle if They recognize me as a nexus of The Resistance. One of those .50 BMG rifles might be just the ticket for destruction of key cell towers if a particular region still had a rescuable population with unaltered brain cell architecture.
