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John fiddler, his wife gay and walter can relate to the horrors of gun violence in america. >> he just walked up and stood in front of people and just shot them. shot them in the heads. i know what it's like waking up the next day, it's your birthday, you wake up alone. there's a card on the bedside table that's not been written in and no noise in the house. it's not going to change for quite a long time. >> the fiddlers and walter were forever changed by the worst mass shooting in australia's history. on april 28, 1996 over 30 people were shot dead at a crowded tourist destination.

28-year-old martin bryant arrived at the site, ate lunch, walked into a cafe and pulled a semi-automatic rifle out of his bag. his first shots killed three of the fiddlers best friends, who were gunned down right in front of them. >> i froze. i couldn't move. i didn't know what to do. i thought this is the end. >> i said to john, i've been hit. with that he turned around and pushed me under the table. i saw a man behind me hasn't got a head. now the others are under the table told me to be quiet. john told me to shush and we pretended to be dead. >> the gunman moved on and the fiddlers escaped...

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And if someone trys we'll let you know. xfi advanced security. if it's connected, it's protected. call, click, or visit a store today. john fiddler, his wife, gaye, and walter can relate to the horrors of gun violence in america all too well. >> he just walked up and stood in front of people and just shot them, shot them in their heads. i know what it's like waking up. it's your birthday. you wake up alone.

>> i said to john, i've been hit. with that he turned around and pushed me under the table. now the others under the table told me to be quiet and john told me to shush and we pretended to be dead. >> miraculously the gunman moved on and the fiddlers escaped with their lives. outside the cafe, walter and his wife and daughters had been having a picnic. nanette flagged down a car so they could escape, but in that car was the gunman himself. nannette pleaded for her family, but the killer shot her and the 3-year-old madilyn then chased down 6-year-old allah na and shot her near a tree where she ...