[cripplecreek]

They use plenty of them, but also whatever's at hand. In fact, after two and a half seasons, guns only account for slightly more than half of the show's violence. Characters have killed zombies with a car door, an internet cable, a sword and a chair leg, not to mention the crossbow preferred by the show's most popular character. What's to learn from all this? A clear and present need for self-defense justifies violence, and you can use just about anything to kill a zombie.

Actually, the show is clear that a gun is a last resort because the noise attracts zombies. Carl has a homemade silencer on his.

[Pollster1]

Carl has a homemade silencer on his.

Any zombies who are former BATFE probably have Carl at the top of their dinner menu for that. Homemade silencers are a felony.

[LucianOfSamasota]

The sooner you attract them, the sooner you clean them out.

Have a high, secure perch, and boxes and boxes of ammo.

Or set a trap, perhaps with pits full of gasoline.

Free men are the hunters, not the hunted - a paradigm not appreciated by Hollywood.