What we're discussing is whether the concept of ownership is based on fear.

Guns? In some circumstances. In far more, people own them for recreational reasons - hunting, sport shooting, or they own them for purposes of self defense, or their job. I put that more in the "responsibility" department along with things like smoke detectors.

Emergency savings accounts: I can see where you'd use the term fear for these, but I still think this falls along the lines of responsibility. It doesn't make sense to not have some money saved, in fact, I think it is irresponsible not to.

There's a line between doing something out of fear, and doing something to be prepared for an emergency. I don't walk around in fear of a hurricane, but I do keep batteries, extra water, and some canned food on hand, and we have a plan for what we'll do as a familiy in an emergency.

The concept of ownership is one of those things that seperates us from the animals. In a pack of wolves, the strongest in the pack is the leader, and he gets first dibs on the kill. Among civilized humans, whoever produced or procurerd something owns it. A system where everything produced is gathered up by the leader then redistributed is like animal behavior (and communism) for my taste.

And it never works out very well either. Not for humans anyway.