I have a general class license and have been a HAM operator for 6 years. I’m sorry if you understood my comment as meaning that I did not.
Good, so am I. I do not advocate non-hams buying ham gear to use in case of an emergency when getting a license is so easy.
I am however a huge advocate of folks getting a ham license to be prepared for an emergency. Our local hams offer “license in a day” courses and testing during which we get a 96% pass rate. We offer testing before our monthly club meetings and weekly at our casual breakfast. We have installed 2-meter radios in our local police dispatcher office and at the fire department at no cost to them. We have a radio donation program to those hams who can not afford a radio. They are 2-meter radios and we set them up for all the local repeaters. We have connectivity into the local AF Base comm center.