The only thing people who carry are afraid of is being in the wrong place at the wrong time and having to watch their loved ones die because they didn't have the means to at least try to defend them or get them to safety.
The world must be a scary place for them!
The good thing about first aid and insurance are that they help make realistic issues better. I don't keep a surgical table or have volcano insurance because those aren't issues I will realistically have to deal with, and if they are then there are others better equipped to handle them
In Pascal (1960's) you could just do something like: integer number; read(number);
Unless they changed it in the past 30 years, I believe you'd have to do:
number : integer;
read(number);
He has not acquired a fortune; the fortune has acquired him. -- Bion