NewsShooter, you advertise your supreme stupidity with that diatribe against me. We're ALL in the militia, which proves you've never bothered to read the Second Amendment, or, if you have, you are totally incapable of comprehending it. Nor, do you know the definition of "militia," other than what your left wing masters in the media have defined for you.
Groups?? I belong to none, other than the NRA... and having been a member of that "militia group" since 1951, have seen the deliberate demonization of gun owners, by the media, over a long period of time.
This was accelerated in late 1963, after President Kennedy was assassinated, and has been increasing at an increasing rate, ever since. Even then, the media began a feeding frenzy against "gunowners", blaming us for Kennedy's death. Where do I come up with "this stuff?" You ignorant bliss ninny. I've not only watched it happen for 40 years, I've studied Marx and Lenin (and I don't mean "Groucho" & "John"), and know how the Marxist doctrine is used to manipulate people. The brainwashing propaganda comes from the media, and the education system, mainly.
(After the Berlin Wall came down, and many were crying "Communism is Dead, hoorah!" the L.A. Times (better known as Pravda West), interviewed a Stanford Professor of Sociology (what else?), who stated that he was a card carrying member of the Communist Party, along with another 10,000 U.S. professors at universites and colleges, and that the Soviets didn't do it right. When the American Communists finally took over, they'd "do it right", in the U.S.)
As for shortwave, I haven't played around with that since I was in the U.S. Army, and that was a loooongg time ago. I like the "oldies-but-goldies" on AM. Should I get a SW?? You probably know which ones are best.
I find it interesting that you, and your soulmate in ignorance, Justin, have no comprehension how this orchestrated demonization has taken place. Today, most Marxist Socialist inspired people call themselves "progressives" (a word straight from V.I. Lenin, one he (and Stalin) used to describe those in accordance with his and his good buddy, Karl's, doctrine. One of the tactics of international communist progression, was to eventually control the media.
You oughta take some time off from fawning over the New York Times, L.A. Times, and their ilk, and listening to the blather of that admitted Progressive Socialist Democrat Walter Cronkite (and his little anchor sycophants on the networks) who stated in a long feature piece in the L.A. Times, if he were President, he'd institute a Communist Government and use the U.S. Military to confiscate every gun in the U.S. Then read Marx, Lenin, and Mao. Might give you more than just a usual education.
Just for cheets & grins, you two denialists might also read, among other things, "The Sword and The Shield, The Mitrokhin Archive And The Secret History Of The KGB, by Christorpher Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin." Yeah, yeah, I know, he was just another tin hat conspiracy freak... except, Mitrokhin was a KGB Colonel for many years, and was as inside the communist movement as one can get, and details the infiltration of the American media by the Marxists. Or, read the book, "Radical Son," by David Horowitz, a former communist radical, son of American Communists. Read James Bovard's "Lost Rights." Or, "Treason," and "Slander" by Ann Coulter. Or any number of books that have been written about the takeover of the media by the American "progressives."
But, I know you won't. Ignorance is bliss, so you'lll just meander along, thinking the only reason your "good buddies" in the media continue with their "verminization" of YOU, as gunowners, is that they're just not well informed enough about firearms, for if they were, they would not lie consisitently about them and honest gunowners. Their brainwashing propaganda is there for a purpose, although you're too enamoured with your own "tight knit community of media members" to admit it.
And, as for you, Justin, being "in the teeeveee medium," and therefore ohhh sooo well informed... if you wanna meet some real, heavy duty communists "in the media", I could introduce you to quite a few I know in Hollywood. You see, you smug little "medium member," I've been in the teeeeveee/movie racket for PROBABLY, more years than you and NewsShooter put together. (Try since 1963.)
So, if you two naive, foolish, arrogant, holier-than-thou know-nothings wanna keep up with your juvenile insults, just include me in -- to paraphrase Sam Goldwyn. I'll come along for the ride.
J.B.