Well here's Cracked on the subject:
7 Scientific Reasons a Zombie Outbreak Would Fail (Quickly)
In sort Zombies are stupid creatures ill-suited to defend themselves from predators, the elments, and damage. And there's this:
As a species, they are pretty much designed for failure. Their main form of reproduction is also their only source of food and their top predator. If they want to eat or reproduce, they have to go toe to toe with their number one predator every single time. That's like having to fight a lion every time you to want to have sex or make a sandwich. Actually, it's worse than that: Most top predators are only armed with teeth and claws, meaning they have to put themselves in harm's way to score a kill. Humans have rifles.
Which brings us to humans, which are smart, tool using, able to hunt in packs, and can outsmart terrain (we can use doors and ladders, they can't). The article even mentions military weapons, which are almost unfair when used against shambling creatures that don't even hide from danger.
Zombies... boring.
Oh and of course the obligatory Gun Rights and pro redneck message:
As we touched on briefly above, if Homo sapiens are good at one thing, it's killing other things. We're so good at it that we've made entire other species cease to exist without even trying. Add to the mix the sheer number of armed rednecks and hunters out there, and the zombies don't even stand a chance.
Remember, the whole reason hunting licenses exist is to limit the number of animals you're allowed to kill, because if you just declared free reign for everybody with a gun, everything in the forest would be dead by sundown. Even the trees would be mounted proudly above the late-arriving hunter's mantles. It's safe to assume that when the game changes from "three deer" to "all the rotting dead people trying to eat us," there will be no shortage of volunteers.
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