The responses to this thread are mind boggling. This poor guy, a strong conservative, gets shot in the head and has his brain totally scrambled. Then, he gets wheeled around for 30 years by his wife and set up as a prop for gun control. And the overwhelming sentiment on Free Republic? Good Riddance.
Lets see how well some of you would do with a scrambled frontal lobe. Shame on all of you. RIP Mr. Brady.
Agreed. He had the same capacity to reason as the dementia suffering Barry Goldwater when the press used to run to him for quotes near the end of his life.
Mrs. Brady, however, exploited James Brady to her everlasting shame.
A lot of the remarks on the passing of James Brady here at FR are clearly over the top. Got it.
But go read anything online of his biography so far. Brady was not vegetative and over the years recovered his ability to talk and walk. He was an active proponent of gun control & the Brady Bill & was not a semisensate prop being wheeled around by his wife, who of course was the more articulate spokesperson of the gun control duo.
And does anyone here recall that after Bill Clinton signed the Brady `assault weapon’ ban into law in 1993, that both the Bradys thanked him by addressing the 1996 Democratic Convention AS REPUBLICANS, where they endorsed Clinton’s reelection?
Criticize James Brady for what he was able to do after being wounded in 1981. He was capable of making clear choices, and did so.
Well said.