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Protective layer formed around john's demeanor. he learned the hard way to keep focus in and emotion safely at bay. it was easier that way. survival mode. >> he just focuses on putting one foot in front of the other. i think i do the same thing. and if you were to break down emotionally all the time or -- dwell on what happened you wouldn't get out of bed. >> reporter: the doctors let him go home finally, but since home was not exactly livable, he moved in with christopher at his townhouse. >> my house was a mess because there was a crime scene, the most logical place for me to go was not wher...

The hospital where her father was in intensive care. her brother, christopher, had already arrived. both of them were reeling from loss of their mother. and now they kept vigil at their gravely wounded father's bedside. >> we didn't even know if he was going to live for a long time. >> reporter: pretty touch and go wasn't it? >> to say gruesome is, if i didn't know his hands and know little intricate pieces of him you wouldn't have known it was him. >> reporter: you faced the shocking prospect of becoming an orphan. >> i don't think that ever crossed my mind. he was still alive. >> reporter: m...

But he didn't last at any of them. failed, got kicked out. of course, the whole family tried, said his sister melissa. the trouble wasn't the lack of love. not at all. was there a sense that christopher was loved? >> oh, no doubt about it. >> reporter: but neither love nor money could prevent christopher from always ending back in the same place, trouble. >> i know that he dealt drugs. and at one point he was arrested for it. when i was younger, and, you know that was something that my father being a lawyer and, as well as a parent, you know what do we do? >> reporter: in 1995 when christopher...

Bothparents admitted to striking their son. what was the motive for the brutal and deadly beating during that counseling session? >> did not testify -- >> manslaughter in the first-degree. >> instead, they sat and listened to damaging testimony about what allegedly happened in that church counseling session. in the end, their 19-year-old son lucas was dead. their 17-year-old son christopher left in serious condition. daniel irwin, a deacon at the word of life christian church. he saw bruce leonard strike both of the boys inside the church's sanctuary. he said, leonard hit his son lucas several...

Five death rates and all are states with high gun ownership. there is something of an alignment there. >> what's important about domestic violence, six states just this year made it tougher for abusers to get their hands on guns. bobby jindal signed a law making it tougher and scott walker signed a law making it tougher. they have presidential ambitions that just decided to have gun sense. >> on the broader picture of the politics of this, we've seen after shootings again and again, fits and starts of activity on the hill and then the death of those. it was less than a month ago we had the hor...