[i]To put it succinctly: [u]Phuck Dan "Blather"![/u][/i]
"what ever happened to even modest gun control measures in the U.S. Congress. Apparently not much."
--Dan Rather - CBS Evening News, November 3, 1999.
"[The Oklahoma school shooting] focuses attention again on...
The leadership of the National Rifle Association -- not all of the membership, but the leadership [Charlton Heston] -- would not want that mentioned, but there it is."
--Dan Rather in "Rather's Notebook" at the CBS News Web site, December 3, 1999.
"In Michigan a 19-year-old man was arraigned today..
.. push and the prospects for even modest new gun control laws."
--Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News, March 2, 2000.
"President Clinton urged Congress to pass at least modest measures..
..to do more to keep guns away from criminals and children."
--Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News, March 1, 2000.
"What a difference a day makes. The Republican-led U.S. Senate is backing off and looking for a way out just 24 hours after rejecting a modest gun control measure. The potent gun lobby and its allies in Congress are changing their strategy under wide-ranging and withering fire, especially in the wake of reaction to the Columbine High School massacre."
--Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News, May 13, 1999.
"The shootings in Killeen were the latest tragedy highlighting the success of the gun lobby fighting gun control."
--Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News, October 23, 1991.
Note: A mass murder, according to Rather, highlights the success of the gun lobby.
"With that I rammed a shell into the chamber of a shotgun. There is no mistaking that sound. Within seconds the intruders, or whatever they were, had fled."
--Dan Rather in The Camera Never Blinks, 1977.
The NRA, the "once all-powerful gun lobby..."
--Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News, May 20, 1994.
"Against the backdrop of that Georgia school shooting today and the much more serious shooting here in Littleton last month, there was at least a minor setback today for the gun lobby and its allies in Congress. The Senate reversed course and approved a modest gun control measure."
--Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News, May 20, 1999.
When NAACP filed a lawsuit against gun manufacturers:
"It was launched by one of the nation's most-respected and largest civil rights organizations."
--Dan Rather on the CBS Evening News, July 12, 1999.
Note: In 1994 Dan Rather hosted a $175-a-plate fund-raiser for the NAACP Legal Defense Fund's 40th anniversary.
"You may be surprised at how many states have no gun laws at all and at the relationship between gun laws and gun deaths in the fifty states.
--Dan Rather in an online preview of the Evening News, April 14, 2000
Schieffer; Oklahoma had seen the latest school shooting:
RATHER (TO KEATING):"Governor, it's my understanding you are unalterably opposed to any kind of additional gun control, including handgun control. Is that correct?"
RATHER (TO SCHIEFFER): "So what if anything does this latest school shooting mean for prospects of getting even modest new gun control measures...
--Dan Rather CBS Evening News, 12, 6, 1999.
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