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“All in all, this is a pretty shameful day for Washington,” Obama said from the Rose Garden after the vote. “The American people are trying to figure out — how can something that has 90 percent support not happen?”
“I know how this is going to end, and the despair and the dismay of the families standing out there whose safety we need to protect, and we don’t do it. I am really chagrined,” said Senator Dianne Feinstein, who had sponsored a measure to outlaw semiautomatic firearms liberals erroneously characterize as “assault weapons” for political effect.