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erica lafferty, the daughter of dawn hochsprung, the brave principal of sandy hook elementary. in a meeting. she heard the first shots. ran into the hallway. she ideal at the gunman to stay back, and then lunged at him, and then finally, neil heslin, father of six-year-old jesse lewis, one of the students who was hiding in vicki soto's school. it must have been very difficult for you all this week, in light of this other story that was unfolding in boston. you must just-- your emotioning must have been almost out of control after what you'd been through even before this. >> it was unbelievable that we were talking to senators and their staff, and then we get news of this while talking to a senator staff member. and just freaking out like, our country's really doing this. people are still, like, so evil. >> schieffer: erica, what was your reaction to the events of this week? >> honestly tfelt like i was reliving the worst day of my entire life over again, thinking about the pain that all of the boston victims' families are going through, and will continue to go through. it was a

erica lafferty lost her mother, the principal of the school.his exchange. >> you had mentioned that day, the burden on owners of gun stores that the expended background checks would cause. i'm just wondering why the burden of my mother being gunned down in the halls of her elementary school isn't as important as that? why is that not something that can be supported? >> erica, certainly let me just say that i'm obviously so sorry, and as everyone here, no matter what our views are, for what you have been through. and i think that ultimately when we look at what happened in sandy hook, i understand that's what drove this whole discussion. all of us want to make sure that that doesn't happen again. >> wonder what she meant by that. >> well, i mean -- >> what did senator ayotte mean when she said, i hope it doesn't happen again, and there's a daughter of one of the prime victims. >> what's your response, chris, to when somebody says, oh, there was a bombing and muslims did it. and somebody -- and a lawmaker who doesn't want to, you know, crack down

. >> woodruff: erica lafferty lost her mother, dawn hochsprung, who was the principal at sandy hook.he was a leader and an inspiration to everyone, her parents at the schools, the kids, and definitely most important to my sister and myself. >> woodruff: the legislative failure was made more stinging by public opinion polls showing as many as 90% of americans supported the proposal. in addition, millions of dollars had been poured into tv ads by gun control proponents like new york city mayor michael bloomberg and his organization mayors against illegal guns. >> demand action to fight gun violence. >> woodruff: also leading the advocacy were gunshot victim and former congresswoman gabrielle giffords and her husband mark kelly. the couple formed the political action committee americans for responsible solutions. >> congress must act. let's get this done. >> president obama and mayor bloomberg are pushing gun control. >> woodruff: all this wasn't enough to beat the power of the gun lobby led by the national rifle association. >> we're free already. and as long as we have the 2nd amendme

point, connecticut governor malloy stepped in and asked them to call erica and ultimately, ted cruz did agree to call her back. eric lafferty is just one of the many sources of political pressure applied on capitol hill to help turn the gunfight. when we left this story yesterday night, the pot president was just getting off air force one with 12 people who lost a child or a spouse in the newtown massacre. 12 people ready to become congressional lobbyists for the week and the pressure was being directed primarily at those 14 senators who said they were going to filibuster. including minority leader, mitch mcconnell, who just added himself when we spoke yesterday, to that list yesterday afternoon, which is generally speaking not a good sign for a piece of legislation because if mitch mcconnell wants something filibustered, it tends to get filibustered. but today, there was pressure from everywhere. from the white house, where vice president biden spoke to an audience of law enforcement offers urging them to go to capitol hill in uniform and lobby for universal background checks. there was pressure from the senate where harry