Cenk Uygur
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Daughter of Murdered Sandy Hook Principal Confronts Senator Ayotte
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May 2, 2013
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5:12Now Playing"Erica Lafferty, the daughter of slain Sandy Hook Elementary School principal Dawn Hochsprung, confronted Sen. Kelly Ayotte (R-N.H.) Tuesday over her vote against expanding background checks for firearm purchases.
"You had mentioned that day you voted, owners of gun stores that the expanded background checks would harm," Lafferty said, during a town hall in Warren, N.H. "I am just wondering why the burden of my mother being gunned down in the halls of her elementary school isn't more important than that."*
Erica Lafferty's mother was the principal of Sandy Hook Elementary school, and was shot dead in the Newtown massacre. Lafferty confronted Senator Kelly Ayotte who opposed universal background checks-- how did Ayotte weasel out of answering Lafferty's direct question? Cenk Uygur breaks it down.
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