Morgan was crazy, though - like batshit out-there crazy (he tried to murder Rick, remember?). He had no consideration for his own safety and just stockpiled everything like a crazed hermit. His level of safety was shown up in 6x04 - while bumbling around screaming at himself he knocks over an oil lamp, very close to his vast array of scavenged weapons, and hardly notices until everything's going up in flames and is beyond saving.
I'm not denying there wouldn't be explosives
available, but when surviving on the road what's more useful? A fistful of dynamite, or a Glock? Guns may be loud, but an RPG going off is a hell of a lot louder, and not especially practical. You can't sweep and clear a building with an RPG or stick of dynamite, you don't find silenced grenades on the market. 3x01 perfectly illustrated Team Rick's methods of on-the-road survival and which tools were suited to their purposes - explosives were not in that toolkit.
My point is that Team Rick would have little real use for explosives. A few grenades is not the same as dynamite - and as I said before, when Tara puts the RPG in the car boot she doesn't put it down with kid gloves, she just puts it down. What do you want her to do? Toss it like a spear into the boot?
Eugene has only recently learned how to handle a few weapons - handgun, assault rifle, and machete/axe/whatever. Again, learning how to make bullets from a book is quite different to being clued up on dynamite - not that Eugene was on that road, so Eugene's a moot point. More people will die from guns because of the wide proliferation of guns. If explosives were as common in the American home as guns then there'd be a shedload more deaths by explosives.
I've never seen Tara or Rick handle an RPG before. I've seen Rick handle a grenade once or twice. None of them are the same as handling sticks of live dynamite all wired up to a complicated trap. Yes, the big explosion would have included the petrol in those left over tanks, but the catalyst was clear the walkers trampling on the dynamite sticks that Rosita carefully set aside because
she - not Rick, or anyone else - and she alone didn't like the look of them. The fact that she had to give them all a quick lesson in handling the dynamite - and that only she took issue with that particular bundle of dynamite - proves that they've had no experience with, or cause to seek out, dynamite.
The Saviours are of a different mentality altogether. We see
why they want the dynamite - Team Rick stumble upon it and take it as a matter of random fortune, particularly so in their position of weapon-related poverty. There's a use for dynamite
now, but they've not had the need for it ever before - so they wouldn't have bothered about it (or even considered it). Handguns, rifles, assault rifles, sniper rifles, normal and everyday types of ammunition - that (and food, medical supplies etc) have been their priority for the last two years.
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