Might as well said gunpowder never should have been invented but it was and guns followed. This is why I don't watch "Into the Badlands" because the premise is off. Guns are removed? What did they do, erase all knowledge of how to make gunpowder and basic guns from everyone. Most people know how to make rudimentary zip-guns or even blunderbusses.

Millions of guns were purchased since Odama was elected. I have carried a gun all my life and never had to use it except in the line of duty in the military. The vast majority of people who own guns do so responsibly it is a very small minority who don't raise their children properly or use their guns wrong. It is the small number of people who have no respect for laws or rights of others who keep the police too busy to protect everyone. So therefore we have to be able to protect ourselves for whatever the length of time it takes the police to respond. Different cities take different times to respond, some as long as 30 minutes or more. Here in this small town it averages 10 to 15 minutes, I have a scanner and have measured the calls from the time dispatch gives the officer a call to the time the officer checks '97(arrival).