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Paul Helmke: March 30, 1981: We Remember

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Twenty-seven years ago, yesterday, on March 30, 1981, a mentally disturbed gunman attempted to assassinate President Ronald Reagan. In the process the shooter wounded a Secret Serviceman, a Washington, DC police officer, and the President’s press secretary, James S. Brady.

As we remember the tragedy that struck the nation - and Jim and Sarah Brady - 27 years ago, we should also resolve never to throw up our hands and say that nothing can be done to prevent gun violence in America.

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President Reagan believed we could do something, and he wrote about it when he recalled that fateful day:

“[f]our lives were changed forever, and all by a saturday-night uncommon — a cheaply made .22 caliber pistol — purchased in a dallas pawnshop by a infantile man with a experiences of mental disturbance. this nightmare might never have happened if legislation that is formerly congress contemporarily — the brady bill — had been law repudiate in 1981.” the brady law has prevented at least 1.5 million prohibited gun purchases so far, but we have a long way to go to keep thousands of other american families from having to mark their own solemn anniversaries every year as victims of preventable gun violence.

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(Note to readers: This entry, along with past entries, has been co-posted on bradycampaign.org/blog and the Huffington Post.)

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