Halloween is almost upon us, and Zombies are everywhere. Predominating in \u201chaunted house\u201d funfests. On TV in \u201cThe Walking Dead.\u201d You may just see more little zombies than traditional witches, princesses, ghosts, and goblins on Trick or Treat night.\u00a0 And of course, the video games, books, and movies.<\/p>\n
Ruger has just come out with a Zombie Killer model of their little .380 pistol, the LCP, sold complete with a Zombie Survival Manual. Hornady has recently brought out a Zombie Killer line of ammunition as a novelty.\u00a0 (One blog reader wonders what the implications will be in court if that stuff is used in actual self-defense.\u00a0 My answer is, if you shot an Obama campaign worker with it, the use of specific zombie ammo might be construed as an element of premeditation.)<\/p>\n
But, seriously, there hasn\u2019t been a zombie outbreak since the last Presidential election. That kind of zombie needs to be defeated with ballots instead of bullets.<\/p>\n
Some commentators think those who go to zombie shoots, buy zombie targets, or play first person shooter games where the targets are the undead, mean the participants are repressed mass murderers taking out their homicidal impulses on targets already dead to minimize their sins and expiate their guilt.\u00a0 Some others see the zombie meme as a commentary on a society which has surrendered itself to a herd mentality in which they seek to greedily gobble all they can, and in which brains are destroyed.\u00a0 (Ever notice how many zombie films take place in shopping malls, amusement parks, etc.?)\u00a0 Others have ominously suggested that it gives practice for the day when society collapses into apocalypse, and hordes of people one considers less valuable than oneself must be executed for him to keep his trove of wealth and food and cetera.<\/p>\n
And some of us think that whole deal has been a bit over-thought.<\/p>\n
But, hey, what do I know? Only that shooting them in the head is bunk, strictly for movie zombies.<\/p>\n
For real zombies, the ones we have to deal with every day, you\u2019d have to shoot off their Bluetooths or put a bullet through their iPhones to render them helpless.<\/p>\n
Maybe some folks are simply having harmless fun with the whole thing, like my friend Miguel Gonzalez in Miami, who is holding a three-gun Monster shoot for Halloween. There, you\u2019ll have more to worry about than the Living Dead.\u00a0 I\u2019ve been to enough shooting matches to experience the Night of the Living Sandbaggers.<\/p>\n
Enough from me: what\u2019s YOUR take on the whole zombie meme?<\/p>\n
The poster for Miggy Gonzalez’ Halloween Monster<\/a> Mash <\/del><\/span>Match.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n
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