Sarah Brady, longtime advocate for gun control, dies at 73

[allingeneral]

On a late summer’s evening in 1985, she phoned the National Rifle Association headquarters and left a blunt message: “My name is Sarah Brady, and you’ve never heard of me, but I am going to make it my life’s ambition to try to put you all out of business.”

With that call, Mrs. Brady started down a road that would make her the public face of gun-control activism for a generation. Her husband, James S. Brady, was Ronald Reagan’s press secretary and was left paralyzed during an assassination attempt on the president in 1981. She was left to care for her husband through his long, at times excruciating, convalescence. He died Aug. 4, 2014, at age 73.

But it wasn’t her husband’s shooting that led Mrs. Brady to call the NRA. The turning point for her activism came four years later, when their 6-year-old son, Scott, found what he thought was a toy gun and pointed it at his mother. She told him never to point a gun at anyone and, when he handed it to her, she found to her horror that it wasn’t a toy but a fully loaded .22 similar to the one used to shoot her husband.

“The maddest I’ve ever been in my life,” she told The Washington Post of the gun incident with her son that occurred during a visit to her husband’s home town in Centralia, Ill. “I was livid.”

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[SHMIV]

She left a long legacy of emotionally based propaganda that's done a lot of damage. I hope that we can undo it all.

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[thekinetic]

Imagine that all of her plotting, conniving, and right trampling and still she couldn't outrun death. I'd like to know where she's buried so I can give her flowers a nice watering as it were!

[trailrunner]

But it wasn’t her husband’s shooting that led Mrs. Brady to call the NRA. The turning point for her activism came four years later, when their 6-year-old son, Scott, found what he thought was a toy gun and pointed it at his mother. She told him never to point a gun at anyone and, when he handed it to her, she found to her horror that it wasn’t a toy but a fully loaded .22 similar to the one used to shoot her husband.

“The maddest I’ve ever been in my life,” she told The Washington Post of the gun incident with her son that occurred during a visit to her husband’s home town in Centralia, Ill. “I was livid.”

Her son found a gun, so she decided to take away all of our guns?

[Snakester]

The 6 year old just found a loaded gun lying around the house....Who's was it ? An Adult should have had that gun under lock and key ! It wasn't the guns fault that it was out where a 6 year old could "PLAY " with it.

[smltooner]

But it wasn’t her husband’s shooting that led Mrs. Brady to call the NRA. The turning point for her activism came four years later, when their 6-year-old son, Scott, found what he thought was a toy gun and pointed it at his mother. She told him never to point a gun at anyone and, when he handed it to her, she found to her horror that it wasn’t a toy but a fully loaded .22 similar to the one used to shoot her husband.

“The maddest I’ve ever been in my life,” she told The Washington Post of the gun incident with her son that occurred during a visit to her husband’s home town in Centralia, Ill. “I was livid.”

Her son found a gun, so she decided to take away all of our guns?

Yea, tell her not to blame us, but blame the idiot that left a loaded gun laying around where a child could get it.

[ShotgunBlast]

[MarcSpaz]

Her son found a gun, so she decided to take away all of our guns?

The 6 year old just found a loaded gun lying around the house....Who's was it ? An Adult should have had that gun under lock and key ! It wasn't the guns fault that it was out where a 6 year old could "PLAY " with it.

Yea, tell her not to blame us, but blame the idiot that left a loaded gun laying around where a child could get it.

It was her gun in her house. She could never admit that she was a bad parent and made a mistake. She needed someone or something else to blame. She figured that since she couldn't trust herself, no one was trustworthy.

I wish I could say I'm sorry she's gone.

[dusterdude]

I know i cant

[Reverenddel]

The say never speak ill of the dead, and if you cannot speak well of someone passed, you should say nothing at all.

(cricket-cricket-cricket)

[Swampman]

On a late summer’s evening in 1985, she phoned the National Rifle Association headquarters and left a blunt message: “My name is Sarah Brady, and you’ve never heard of me, but I am going to make it my life’s ambition to try to put you all out of business.”

FAIL!