Here's the democratic prescription for personal safety: get together with millions of your friends, pool an enormous amount of money and hand it over to a bureaucrat, who solemnly promises to blow it all on junk being peddled by opportunists with connections.
Shockingly, I prefer a decentralized approach.
This is reminiscent of a great scene in "Why We Fight" where KBR
(Halliburton) has hired a magician to entice "customers" to purchase its
"products" at a convention.