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that showed that people wanted background checks, i received a very hard and devastating lesson on politics that day. >> 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 and baseball. over 90% of americans wanted that done. and then it didn't pass. >> i felt like a failure. i went out of the chamber and said to mark barden how sorry i was and that i wasn't going give up, and mark i think looked at me thinking i was hinting he might. and you know, he said to me something along the lines of, chris, 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. >> nobody wants to see a shootout in a school. >> day in and day out, year after year, hockley, barden, and many others continued to fight for gun safety legislation.