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i thought with all the momentum after the shooting. with all the public polling that showed people wanted background checks. i received a very hard and devastating lesson on politics. >> the gun lobby was able to influence legislators. because when the polls were done. passing that universal background check bill at the federal level. was polling higher than ice cream in baseball. over 90% of americans wanted that. and it didn't pass. >> it felt like a failure. i went out of the chamber and said mark. i was sorry, i was. i wasn't going to give up. and mark look at me and he said something along lines of, i'm not an advocate for four months, i'm an advocate for 40 years, right, this is my child. i'm never giving up.