Selling fear

I live in Denver and I had hoped to have a few interesting convention insights. Instead about all I have seen are large numbers of police officers almost everywhere and private security guards in most stores. I bought a new phone yesterday and the Verizon store had two guards brought in because of the convention. According to the guard at the store every Verizon location in Colorado has security gaurds for the convention. Someone is making a lot of money off of everyones fears.