Since he’s been off of network TV for over a decade, disgraced former CBS News anchor Dan Rather took to Facebook and Twitter on Wednesday to call for the pass of gun control legislation to combat the claim that the U.S. is being “terrorized daily by gun violence” akin to how the U.S. “spend[s] trillions to defend ourselves” from “foreign terrorists.”
Over an hour before that tweet making the broad comparison, Rather penned a three-paragraph Facebook post first attacking people of faith who have called for prayers for the victims by ranting that “[i]t is not enough to say our prayers are with the victims.”
Rather argued that it’s “not enough to say this is NOT normal” and “point the usual fingers” and for Americans to reexamine these tragedies as “a national security issue equivalent to terrorism.”
The former CBS Evening News anchor continued:
It actually is terrorism. We need to let our best minds in law enforcement, sociology, public health and many other professions come up with plans of action and have that done without being hamstrung by petty partisan politics.
Americans are being killed in large numbers. When did we go from a can-do nation to a shrug-our-shoulders nation? This is a problem we can't afford not to solve. It is a contagion that needs a plan of treatment. Now.
Despite all that grandstanding, Rather hypocritically urged readers to not engage in “conclusion-jumping” since “facts at this point are few” and “the situation [is] fluid.”
Also taking to Twitter to express their outrage, Fox News personality Geraldo Rivera sounded off on the National Rifle Assocation as being “full of shit” and arguing that the real “key” to coming to grips with this horrifying event is “to be outraged” by it to the same tune that “we would be if Muslim extremists were doing the killing” because “[t]his is terror.”
What follows are two screencaps of Rivera’s tweets (for his full time, go here):
