[Rockingham]

Don't doctors use fear to promote vaccination, car makers use fear to tout seat belts and air bags, and insurers use accidents and property loss to sell insurance?

More important, just about anywhere one lives, there are going to be burglars, robbers, rapists, and killers on the loose nearby ready and eager to take you or people you care about as their prey. One need not live in fear though, so long as you take reasonable precautions, which may well include being armed and ready to defend oneself and others.

[Crazieman]

Ban fire extinguishers. They’re weapons. We can always call the Fire Department.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Don't doctors use fear to promote vaccination, car makers use fear to tout seat belts and air bags, and insurers use accidents and property loss to sell insurance?....

And to fear aging, food, parenting, marriage, religion, conservatism, American exceptionalism, etc.....

[Wonder Warthog]

"...car makers use fear to tout seat belts and air bags...

Actually, car makers wanted nothing to do with either...they were forced to install them due to government regulations...which were passed by GOVERNMENT creating fear, and people falling for it.