Yeah, because deadly bacteria pandemics come through once a month and if we don't all take our antibiotics, it's one foot in the grave! But I agree, farming and agriculture are definitely backwards; it's a sign of civilisation when your people are too stupid to be able to figure out how to deal when things get rough and they can't buy at a supermarket anymore.
Both my parents renew their gun licenses. If anybody is doing the pillaging, it'll be us!
I don't believe overly much in the doomsday, tribal, devolving to primal animals predictions of what would happen after an apocalypse. At least not the the extent people in this thread are romanticising about it, and certainly not to the extent Fallout did. Fallout was fun because it was playing out an extreme worst case scenario which focused on the most primitive aspects of humanity more than anything else. I'm picturing something more like Dark Angel, or Jericho at a pinch.