James Brady’s Death Ruled a Homicide, the Police Say. Time to kick Hinckley out of the mental ward and try him for murder. We think he’d look good with a needle in his arm, noose around his neck, frying in the electric chair or with a few bullets in him from a firing squad. This will be a question to ponder for the liberals in Washington, D.C. We wonder if they’ll like the fact the Brady’s went full-tilt boogie on gun control and prosecute, or if they will ignore it because Brady was Reagan’s press secretary? As it is now he get’s out 17 days a month, something we don’t think should happen, especially now.
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The only reason I think there's any traction to this story at all, is because Brady and his wife became such big anti-gun NAZI's after he was shot in the head. When was the last time you heard of the LSM giving two shits about a dead conservative...unless it was to spit on their grave?
Let's take the case of Brian Stowe, the man who had the crap kicked out of him at a Dodgers game and looks to be in worse condition than Brady was. He's brain damaged, can't care for himself and will always be that way.
When he dies, will the coroner rule it a homicide and will the jerks who did this be tried?
I hope so, but in California, probably not.
I wasn't alive when this happened, but I have seen the video. That was very awful, is it true this was done because of that movie "Taxi Driver"? I saw that some years ago (it wasn't all of that in my opinion, but I guess that was a 70's thing).
Anyway it is surprising that he went for gun control, when he still had armed guards for who knows how long in order to protect him and others. He stated in the article that had he thought of gun control maybe he wouldn't be in the chair? Really?
The issue here was the Secret Service not following appropriate protocols and someone with Hinckley's mental issues being out and about and able to get a gun. This almost ALWAYS goes back to the person's mental issues... If the issue of those who have mental issues not getting weaponry is resolved a lot of these shootings will be avoided. With that said a society where only a selected elite have weapons and law abiding citizens don't have weapons is a society that is primed for a despot.
"is it true this was done because of that movie “Taxi Driver”?
Hinckley shot President Regan to impress Jodie Foster. Foster played the young prostitute in Taxi Driver. Robert De Niro, plots to assassinate a presidential candidate in the movie. Hinckley even plotted to kill President Carter before Regan took office.
Too bad he didn't get Carter instead.
Yeah. Where are our assassins when we really need them?
Brady was no different the Congresswoman and her astronaut husband. They all took a tragedy and became shrill opportunists.
True
"I wasn’t alive when this happened..."
Sigh. Why do the young have to rub it in?
Sorry bro... :-)
Really,
Well, I just read the story and the linked obituary. I didn't see the part where the ME claims Brady was killed by the shots Hinckley fired 33 years ago. Am I being too picky about details again?
I don't know how they can make it more obvious than that.
I'd have to concede it's a valid point.
I see the drift to all this. I think what is bothering me is that I have never seen a ruling where some one was deemed to have died as a result of something that happened to them so long before. Are soldiers who are terribly injured in combat, survive and live for 33 years, maybe even in bed, considered to have died in combat? Why didn't Brady die 8 years ago? If he had lived 5 more years would the ruling be different? I certainly don't mean to belittle the tragedy of what happened to Mr Brady and his long suffering, and I'd be the first one to say that Hinckley should have been executed long, long ago, but can't we close this chapter out somewhere? I'm still curious about the ME's actual findings in the autopsy. I think JP had it right earlier. The ruling sounds more like publicity stunt than science.
That's why I think this will be an opportunity for an ambitious prosecutor to get in the newspapers, nothing more.
If you steal a quarter from someone, and later on that particular quarter gains value to collectors, and ends up being worth thousand, did the their steal a quarter? Or thousands of dollars?
Agreed.
I think that surviving the event should eliminate any homicide charges LATER ON, even if it can be found that an EVENTUAL death later on was somehow directly linked to the event that was survived in the past.
I am not on the side of criminals, however, this can be abused. A bully in high school beat a boy up that caused brain damage, but the boy survived the event. The bully may have even been arrested and charged for battery or something or else something may have been done with him penalizing him for what he did. Then 30 years later the beat up boy to man now dies and it is found that the event may have lead somehow directly to the death of the now man even if he survived the initial event. Now the bully is an upstanding member of society (as an example), should he be arrested again and tried for murder now?
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That doesn't sound right. Also since this Hinckley is still away from society somewhat, not sure how much more of a punishment he can be put through.
It appears Brady pissed off more than a few million gun owners. Brady must've had some very dirty laundry that never hit the wash.
They're not saying he was murdered last week. They're saying getting shot 33 years ago led to his death last week. Big difference. No need for conspiracy theories, just a stretch by prosecutors who want a chance to be in the newspapers.
Thanks for adjusting my thinking. So Brady died from the damages done 33 yrs. ago. That should now reopen the case for homicide charges. Hinck is going back to the clink and he won't be getting any get out of jail passes. I wonder if he'll claim he's still a fruitcake?
Brady was 74 years old. I don't think that it could be in reality a homicide.
I've never understood lighter sentencing for attempted murder than for murder. You get time off for being incompetent?
Didn't he recently try to get released on the grounds that he's sane now? Seems like that would preclude him arguing insanity a second time. I don't know if you can plead insanity in the past for a crime in the past - it's Washington, D.C. so I guess that would depend on D.C. laws.
which are more mutable than a bowl of porridge.
Yeah, because if Hinckley was insane 33 years ago he was still insane... 33 years ago.
And he's still insane now. No reason he should spend any time outside of a locked cage.