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CBS is watched by millions of folks like my mom. I can already hear her saying, "Gee, things seemed so much safer when Clinton was president." (emphasis mine) She said the same during the Reagan years. She's easily rattled by fear-mongering.

Perceptions are twisted by the TV news propaganda. Very effective stuff on a lot of people.

>> Nobody hardly watches their news anymore.<<

I find it hard to believe any conservative still watches any of the alphabet broadcasters. They haven't been in my home since 1984. I also try to avoid buying anything I know is advertised on ABC, CBS, or NBC although this is difficult since I don't watch these losers.

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That's very true. I think it's only a matter of time before Letterman is the anchor for the CBS Evening News. "Our lead story tonight is a stupid pet trick."

But, on the point of the gun shows. In 1989-91 during the Soviet-Afghan war, I attended about 20 gun shows in northern California in connection with some research I was doing. To my surprise at two or maybe 3 of the shows I attended I saw groups of two to as many as five Afghan men in traditional garb buying laserscopes, grenades and automatic and semi-automatic weapons. I was not the only one watching. There was a contingent of G-men watching in a circumspect way. (The shoes were the give-away on the G-men.) I thought this stuff went on in Lichtenstein and Brussels, but there they were at the fairgrounds in Stockton.

Just anecdotally, at one show I was browsing an illustrated govt publication on how to blow up a house, when one of the G-Men approached me to ask me if I was happily married. One of the better pick up lines I have ever heard.