. >> i want to go now to colin godard, a survivor of the virginia tech massacre, and a senior policy vocate for mayors against illegal guns. good afternoon, colin. i understand that you are in washington for a series of meetings, in efforts to renew a gun reform push. but we heard majority leader harry reid today say, and i'm quoting him, we don't have the votes on background checks. i'm assuming that's got to be deeply disheartening to someone like you, who survived a horrific mass shooting on a day like today, 24 hours after yet another one. >> it is disheartening. but i do take solace in the fact that we did have a vote in the united states senate earlier this year. and despite the headlines, we had a majority of u.s. senators vote for expanding background checks to all gun sales. we just didn't meet the knew merrick number. >> but colin -- >> we had a majority vote for it. >> mr. goddard, you know, there were 55 votes, and that was not enough to break a gop potential filibuster on it. everybody knew that. that was the fundamental problem that prevented any change. >> at least we g