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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