You are absolutely right Strayslack [or Mr. Glock], we can not and should not live without at least one firearm! Food and defense will be extremely important in a situation we would never imagine.
Please take a look at our survival group here at Avalon; The Darkside of the Moon:
www.projectavalon.net/forum/group.php?groupid=9
Without guns in a crisis:
= No relevant chance to defend, even if it is only scaring others away
= No relevant chance to hunt food of all sorts
= No relevant chance to feed yourselves or family in lasting crisis
= No relevant chance to live outside civilisation
= No relevant chance to uphold life
= No relevant chance to spread the word and let people wake up
= No relevant chance to see what the world will become afterwards
If you are placed in a prison camp there will be plenty of such chances, but take your precautions never to get there!
It's never to late to start with guns training folks. I never thought of guns in the first place either. Tools are here for your use.