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>> if you are committed to protecting the second amendment rights, you should vote for this bill. >> on april 17th with the bar dense sitting in the senate gallery, the compromise amendment on background checks came up for a vote. >> i remember we were getting preliminary reports that didn't look like there were going to be enough votes. i mean, we had been hearing that you're making a difference here. you're changing minds and they're voting appropriately. we are encouraged by that. >> the yeas are 54, the nays are 46. >> they needed 60 votes to prevent a threatened republican filibuster. >> ...

♪ just a few weeks after the death of their kind, enhe jettic son daniel, mark and jackie barden headed to washington and right in the middle of the gun control debate. >> this is our first task as a society. keeping our children safe. >> the president was asking congress to tighten gun control laws. at the top of his list, universal background checks. >> daniel was such an unusually compassionate child. and we feel like he deserves us to do something. >> one of the first things the bar dense did in washington was sit down with nine other sandy hook family members and gun control advocate ...

Birthday the kids and i got together. we played "what a wonderful world" for papa. daniel played the drums. >> he was really proud of himself. ♪ what a wonderful world [ cheers and applause ] >> on the morning of december 14th, he said, can you show me something on the piano? and so i showed him how to play "jingle bells." i was looking at his little hands thinking how cute they were. and he did it very well. >> five days later, the bardens were burying their son. a note handed to me while covering the story shows the family was already thinking about how they could make a difference on beha...

Because i felt if i stood up the world would spin away. i remember asking why would somebody walk into the school and kill my child. >> in the wake of unfathomable grief, our hearts are broken, our spirit is not. three different quests for change. >> that's going to buy time. >> for their children, for all children. >> we want to prevent somebody else from suffering the way that we have. >> it's not only about sandy hook. >> we can't go back in time, but we can take what we've learned and honor our daughter by doing something with it. >> december 14th, 2012. even before the sun was up, somethi...

Paul had there is the reward. >> we could have just not done the fund. >> we could have made the choice not to and it would have been such a shame. because it's really -- >> and that's another source of fuel and comfort for us is just the amazing work that our daughter is doing. >> they all know it's her fund. >> you see her picture on the web site. >> the way that she loved people and the way that she served people, we get to carry it on for her. >> and a piece of joey goes out with all these people. >> absolutely. >> long after their deaths, joey, daniel and avielle, will still be making a d...