CNN CNN Special Report June 4, 2024 03:29:00
I was absolutely devastated, because i thought with all of the momentum after the shooting, with all of the public polling 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 level 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 a...