What did Dan Rather say in response to Trump's statement about Second Amendmant People?

Answer 1

Dan Rather said a lot about Donald Trump's statement. Here are some of the most pertinent points:

• "No trying-to-be objective and fair journalist, no citizen who cares about the country and its future can ignore what Donald Trump said today. When he suggested that "The Second Amendment People" can stop Hillary Clinton he crossed a line with dangerous potential."
• "By any objective analysis, this is a new low and unprecedented in the history of American presidential politics."
• "This is no longer about policy, civility, decency or even temperament. This is a direct threat of violence against a political rival."
• "Once the words are out there they cannot be taken back. That is what inciting violence means."
• "To anyone who still pretends this is a normal election of Republican against Democrat, history is watching. And I suspect its verdict will be harsh."

At the end of his remarks he quoted Abraham Lincoln as follows:

"In trying to come to terms with today's discouraging development the best I can do is to summon our greatest political poet Abraham Lincoln for perspective:

'We are not enemies, but friends. We must not be enemies. Though passion may have strained it must not break our bonds of affection. The mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battlefield and patriot grave to every living heart and hearthstone all over this broad land, will yet swell the chorus of the Union, when again touched, as surely they will be, by the better angels of our nature.'

Lincoln used these stirring words to end his First Inaugural Address. It was the eve of the Civil War and sadly his call for sanity, cohesion and peace was met with horrific violence that almost left our precious Union asunder. We cannot let that happen again."