 James Brady's wife advocated for gun control, was able to pass a temporary, as it turns out, in retrospect, assault weapons ban afterwards in bipartisan show of support. James Brady ultimately died 33 years later of the wounds that were inflicted on him that day in 1981. And his death was termed a homicide, a homicide, because it was the beginning of the end for him. But the end took 33 years in any event.