Am I a Zombie?

In the Mattathias Schwartz piece in the NYT I am reading now, the militias call the unprepared: zombies.

``Now, I can’t really think of a scenario where I’m going to use my AR-15 as an AR-15. I can’t quite articulate it. It sounds like I want to go out fighting zombies” — slang for the unprepared — “or feds. I don’t want to. But if it ever comes to that, God forbid, I want to be able to. But no, no. . . .” He shook his head. “That isn’t it either. It’s just something that I think I should have. Fred, why should I have an AR-15?”''

I am not much into the zombie flick crowd. I wonder though, how many of them think, like Mr. Wade, the math professor at Bowling Green State University, practicing his marksmanship, that those of us that are not getting ready for a coming war are zombies.

I've seen some zombie movies; zombies are dehumanized so we don't feel sorry if they are killed like cockroaches.

I think it is rather the opposite, those people getting ready for the coming apocalyptic war, don't see, what I see. Nobody will make it this time. We have powerful destruction tools.

Don't get there. Think.