Because the Gov said " You'll be safe here, Zombies can't cross water." Notice how the girl (who was obviously full of it from the beginning) was both the first to volunteer and the first to mess her pants when the shooting started. I bet she's like 15 or something. There's more blurring of the lines as to what is morally…
Good thing Merle killed all of those extras! Seems like I had never seen 100% of those people he killed before. You think he would have maybe shot more than once in the direction of the governor instead of giving up after 1 bullet. I could be remembering incorrectly though, he did seem to summersault out of those giant…