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James Brady had brain damage from the gunshot to his head ... but he was far from brain-dead.
His campaign for the passage of the Brady bill was assisted by his wife but it wasn't her idea ... it was his.
Ronald Reagan who was shot and almost killed in the same hail of bullets, voiced his support for the Brady Bill, saying the 1981 assassination attempt might have never happened if the Brady Bill had been law. This reversed his 1975 stance on handgun control.
Like so many human beings, a personal assault and tragedy reversed his views on gun control.
Sarah supported her husbands bill but to imply that she was the only proponent of it is a fallacious construct.
Actually the Brady Bill would not have stopped Hinkley from getting the 25 caliber pistol he uses in the assassination attempt.