Dan Rather on "CBS This Morning," January 26, 1995, promoting the prime time special on youth violence "In the Killing Fields of America":

He has hope of staying out [of a gang] as long as he has a basketball in his hands.... Without the basketball this kid is running drugs, carrying a gun and soon to kill somebody. And that's true in place after place. Now we get to decide: Do you want a basketball in his hands, to continue trying to convince him to stay out of a gang, or do you want to face him in a dark street some night with a nine-millimeter Glock in his hands?

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