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Just a few weeks after the death of their kind, enhe jettic son daniel, mark and jackie barden headed to washington and right in the middle of the gun control debate. >> this is our first task as a society. keeping our children safe. >> the president was asking congress to tighten gun control laws. at the top of his list, universal background checks. >> daniel was such an unusually compassionate child. and we feel like he deserves us to do something. >> one of the first things the bar dense did in washington was sit down with nine other sandy hook family members and gun

[ cheers and applause ] >> on the morning of december 14th, he said, can you show me something on the piano? and so i showed him how to play "jingle bells." i was looking at his little hands thinking how cute they were. and he did it very well. >> five days later, the bardens were burying their son. a note handed to me while covering the story shows the family was already thinking about how they could make a difference on behalf of daniel. >> if you could read it because i can't. >> okay. >> the letter was written by daniel's 11-year-old sister. >> says "my name is natalie barden. i wanted to ...

I remember asking why would somebody walk into the school and kill my child. >> in the wake of unfathomable grief, our hearts are broken, our spirit is not. three different quests for change. >> that's going to buy time. >> for their children, for all children. >> we want to prevent somebody else from suffering the way that we have. >> it's not only about sandy hook. >> we can't go back in time, but we can take what we've learned and honor our daughter by doing something with it. >> december 14th, 2012. even before the sun was up, something seemed off. >> daniel would always sleep in until clo...

>> he's the kid who the day after hallowe'en you'd go over to his house and he'd open up his basket and say, what's your favorite kind of candy? and want to give it to you. i'd say well no that's your candy. he'd say but i enjoy it by watching you enjoy it. that's how he gets enjoyment. like what little kid does that, you know? >> trick or treat. >> and he was musical like his father. ♪ >> christmas before this last year, he got a drum set. ♪ >> for jackie's father's 90th birthday the kids and i got together. we played "what a wonderful world" for papa. daniel played the drums. >> he was r...

Extensively in neuroscience. while at the rock bottom, aviell's parents decided to honor their daughter by trying to answer the question why do people become violent. >> and we do think that there are physical manifestations in the brain that lead to all our behaviors. and if we can understand those, we can help nudge them one direction or another to make things happier and healthier. >> in other words, treat the problem and stop violent behavior before it ever happens. >> it's a star. >> mark and jackie barden's living room is full of memories of their son daniel. >> his kindergarten sent thi...