Islamic terrorists have detonated a suitcase nuke in the nation’s capital that effectively decapitated the federal government. Chaos stalked the land for some time thereafter. All federal welfare, social security, retirement, and benefit payments ceased. The inner cities turned into war zones that spilled out across the countryside. The federal government disappeared.
For some time during the worst of the chaos, the only law and order present was the militia and armed citizens who came together to preserve a modicum of sanity.