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good evening. thank you for joining us. i'm trevor ault. it's all too common. some of our youngest cut down from gun violence. now the family fighting to create stronger firearm reform after facing their own heartache.

it was a scene made in america. >> it appears the female has a long gun pointed toward me. >> juvenile male looks like he has something in his hand as well. >> reporter: florida deputies locked in a firefight with a 12-year-old boy and a 14-year-old girl. >> hands up! don't make me do this. don't do this. >> reporter: exchanging gunfire with children. >> hands up! >> reporter: volusia county sheriffs say they ran away from a group home, broke into a house, and found an ak-47, a shotgun, and a handgun in a bedroom. >> the 14-year-old was shot multiple times and she's fighting for her life right now in the hospital. >> got eyes on her? >> reporter: it is just one of thousands of chilling examples in a country awash with guns. >> 2-year-old son shot himself last week. >> a 9-year-old hospitalized after he was shot by his 2-year-old sister. >> police say the girl's 5-year-old sibling shot her.

>> reporter: more than 4 million minors live in homes with loaded, unlocked firearms. and so far this year, there have been more than 90 unintentional shootings by children resulting in at least 62 injuries and 36 deaths. >> america right now is in the middle of one of the worst moments in gun violence in modern history. >> reporter: it's prompted mothers like connecticut's kristin song to take action. >> we're not going after the responsible gun owners, we're going after the negligent gun owners. >> reporter: testifying on capitol hill for stronger gun safety laws. >> what's your favorite book? >> reporter: three years after her son was killed. >> pretty much any. >> we sang a lot, tons of dance parties in the kitchen, lots of hugs. we'd call ourselves the song 5. >> reporter: when kristin and mike remember their days as a family of five, their memories are anchored by ethan, their youngest child. >> he was amazing.

and i always tell people, you can't really teach empathy. and ethan just got it. one trait i loved about him the most was his compassion, empathy towards marginalized people, animals. people who didn't have a voice. he really took pride in championing them. >> you knw how teenage boys can be. was he ever pushing the boundaries a little bit? >> out of the three children, he was the one i worried the least about. >> january 21st, 2018, 12 days after ethan's 15th birthday, police showed up unannounced at the song doorstep. >> cops said, you need to get to the hospital right away. >> that ws the last day of my life, my old life. the e.r. doctor came in, leaned against the wall. he said -- >> he slid down. >> he started to slide down the wall. he said, "we couldn't save him, your son is gone." it was like you're falling off a cliff into this abyss. >> reporter: they were told

ethan had been at his best friend's house. the teens were playing with a handgun. ethan had been shot in the head. his face so disfigured, his parents were unable to see him at the hospital. >> i was really adamant that i wanted to sit with ethan. >> yeah. >> i was the one who brought him into this world. and i wanted to be the last one who say good-bye. and i wanted to apologize to him and tell him i was so sorry that i couldn't protect him. because i really felt like that was my job. and that i failed. totally failed him. >> reporter: the song family's world dropping out from underneath them. just hours before, kristin had spent the morning with ethan. his smile lighting up the house, having just had his braces removed that day. >> it was just a magical -- you know, we just had a great, great conversation. he knew what college he wanted to go to, he wanted to get married and have seven children,

you know. i just remember i grabbed his hands. he had the most beautiful green eyes. and i said, "you are going to make such a big difference in this world." >> reporter: an investigation found that the handgun ethan was playing with was one of three that had been stored in a cardboard box inside of a large tupperware container in the closet of the friend's father, unloaded and secured with an operable gun lock, but the keys to the gun locks were hidden under clothes in the same tupperware container. no charges were filed against the father because quote the gun owner's conduct in storing the guns did not violate the law and there was lack of evidence he had known or should have known the juveniles could have gained access to the guns without permission. >> do you remember talking to ethan about guns at any point? >> i definitely remember him taking one of these dart guns with a foam ball on the end of it and shooting it, and it bounced off my chest. and i said, hold everything. you ever have a gun in your hand, you never, ever, ever

point it at anybody. i think kids make mistakes. that's what youth is for, that's what growing up is for. it's up to the adults to try to keep them safe. >> there are millions of gun owners in the united states who are under the false and deadly impression that they can educate their child out of making that bad decision with that gun. >> reporter: john woodrow cox is the author of "children under fire: an american crisis." he says while mass shootings and school shootings are horrific, accidental shootings like ethan's are far more deadly. >> we have more guns than people. kids are going to find guns if they're unlocked. then it's roulette. parents who leave guns unlocked and loaded in their homes are playing roulette with their kids' lives. >> it's kind of impossible to imagine a level of grief larger than losing your son in an accident like this. how did you cope with it, if you could at all? >> initially, early on, i just

wanted to commit suicide. i just wanted to check out. the pain was so intense. i tell people, it's like you can't even catch your breath, it's like having a thousand stones piled up on your chest. >> what brought you back from the depths? >> my other son. and i was just staring at him, and i could not believe ethan was not next to him at the breakfast table. and i remember thinking, that's it. like, it's just -- it's over. then he looked up and he said to me, "you're not going to hurt yourself, are you?" and he said, "mom, if i lose another member of this family, i'm checking out too." at that point i was like, forget it, i have to live now. i have no other choice. >> reporter: the song family motto now is "honor through action." their pain still real and raw but channeled into advocacy. >> we realize that if you lose a child, you gain a mission. and from there, we began working on ethan's law. >> love is the central guiding element of any great team. >> reporter: after months of lobbying for safer gun storage laws, kristin and mike

celebrated when the connecticut legislature passed ethan's law in 2019, requiring gun storage or a safety device in homes with a minor. >> this is just a pin code safe, it opens right up. >> reporter: devices like this, passcode protected safe box. under ethan's law, owners could face jail time in connecticut if their weapon accidentally wounds or kills someone. >> have some commonsense, life-saving laws -- >> reporter: the songs are on a mission to make ethan's law national, working with politicians like connecticut senator richard blumenthal. they run into each other at events like this gun violence rally in new haven. >> what happened to them, every parent's worst nightmare. my children could have been ethan. every parent should feel that way about safe gun storage. >> reporter: senator blumenthal invited kristin to testify at that congressional hearing last month. >> i wanted to thank all of the gun owners who secure their weapons. because ethan would have been

safe in your house. he would have walked out of your home and into my arms. >> safe storage doesn't take a single gun away from any person. no matter who that person is. safe storage leaves that gun in that person's possession. it just means it's stored in a place that other people can't get to it. and it makes such common sense. >> reporter: even so, some gun rights groups oppose safe storage laws, over concerns the devices could prevent quick access to weapons for self-defense. but e.r. doctors like megan ranny in rhode island believe more than laws need to be changed. >> we can pass all the laws we want. but at the end of the day, we have to work with community groups. it's about changing the norms around the way that people store their firearms or their ammunition. and it's about making it a community standard, that you expect that your friends and neighbors are going to store their gun in a way that your family members can't get access to it. >> reporter: she's just received funding from the cdc to study gun violence as a public health

crisis. >> we look for risk factors, we look for ways to prevent the shooting from happening before someone actually gets wounded. and then we try to address that ripple effect of trauma which inevitably follows from any gunshot wound. >> kristin, you talked about how on that day in 2018 you had told ethan that he was going to make an impact. is that part of what's driving you now? >> he's making a difference in this world, and i'm just a conduit of him making a difference in the world. >> reporter: two weeks from what would have been his graduation, ethan's parents instead went to his gravesite. they know his death is permanent, but they're determined his legacy will be too. >> we just wanted to let you know that we love you, buddy. we'll see you soon. >> the national version of ethan's law is still awaiting action in congress. coming up, we go diving for a solution. how to save our oysters and our future.

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♪ maybe you love slurping them up, or maybe you think they're a salty blob. oysters are one of the most polarizing items on the menu. now the seafood farmers hit hard by the pandemic who have an idea to keep the wrath of mother nature at bay. here's abc's chief meteorologist ginger zee. >> if you step on a bag, it's no big -- >> it's not going to wreck everything, it's not going to run -- >> no.

>> i don't think people could understand the majority of the oysters that they're eating on their plate at a restaurant are from a farm. they're not just out and about. >> no. i'll say it straight out. if you're eating a wild oyster, you're not eating a wild oyster. there is no real wild oysters left in the world. i mean, there's a little pocket here, a little pocket there. >> reporter: last year when the pandemic shut down restaurants, it eliminated the oyster farmers' business. >> we were having the best year of our lives right up -- january was the best january in terms of sales, and in growth. january, february. and then, you know. just stopped. zero. >> zero. >> reporter: not only did their business go to zero, but their oysters got too big to eat. >> so what we do is we got them out, get the smaller oyster, put them in their own bag, a larger one -- >> the process now is to take

them off the boat, over here. >> yeah. >> show me, this is the bag i'm going to grab. i don't know if you know this, these are my oyster-shucking shorts, they're made for this. yes! with millions of uneaten oysters, some of them just grew too large to go to market, emerged a giant problem. >> the problem is, is that the farm is a big process. you're constantly moving oysters through the system. if you can't sell the full-grown ones, they don't stop growing, then you're out of space, things become a problem. >> reporter: out of that double crisis, an environmental pearl of a solution. the reality is, we need to restore our coastal habitats, our oyster reefs. 85% of them in the united states have been destroyed because of overexploitation, primarily. we think this is a real need to help farmers, who can't sell their entire production.

>> the nature conservancy came in and decided to pay us for a bunch of -- as our oysters get too large, they're not marketable. so they call them our big and uglies. i wasn't happy about that name. but anyway, that's what they call them. >> they bought your big and uglies?p>> they bought our big and that was manna from heaven. >> reporter: good for the farmers and also the environment. >> oysters are probably one of the most sustainable foods we have. they require no feed, no water, no land to produce, and they're doing something good for the environment when they're filtering the water, providing habitat for surrounding fish and invertebrates. >> reporter: and from long island to here on governor's island, the millions of uneaten oysters that would have just gone to waste are actually bought from the oyster farmer and brought into the harbor to recreate what's natural. >> new york harbor used to be one of the great ecological treasures of the world. and we destroyed that by

harvesting all the oyster reefs. so the harbor's essentially a clear cut, has no more trees.en- we think that by restoring oyster reefs to the harbor, we can restore that lost habitat, also use it as a way to connect new yorkers back to the harbor, sort of reimagine new york harbor as space we should all be using and taking advantage of. >> reporter: it was a team effort. the nature conservancy, pew charitable trusts, billion oyster project, partnered with the harbor school in new york. they bought millions of unsold oysters to support the farmer and then put those oysters back in the harbor as living oyster reefs. >> today we're getting oysters from an oyster farm that was unable to sell oysters to restaurants during the pandemic, so those oysters get too big for the half shell market. so each one of those bags has about 50 oysters. and in total over the last two days, 5,000 oysters are going to go down in the reef. these are billion oyster

staffmembers, dropping oyster on this the reef. harbor school students and alums are going to scuba dive down and distribute them in steel containers on the bottom. >> oysters when they're in their natural habitat really create this incredible barrier for storm surges. it produtects that, ecosystems that are on the shoreline protecting us, and they're amazing to eat as well. >> reporter: oyster reefs are natural barriers, absorbing wave energy before it gets to the coast. but we overharvested them and left ourselves vulnerable. >> when the nature conservancy rescued a lot of us out here, we were sitting on top of huge oysters that kept getting bigger by the day, and we couldn't sell them. they came in with a program and bought a lot of oysters from guys. it was real, you know -- it was a real life save where we needed

it. >> reporter: the soar program, supporting oyster aquaculture and restoration, plans to spend $2 million on more than 5 million surplus oysters. that's enough to rebuild 27 akers of shellfish reefs. >> turn this knife over, 180. there you go. wiggle it, jiggle and wiggle it in there until you feel like it's -- >> reporter: you know i could not leave the oyster farm without learning the art of shucking from a pro. >> when you feel it's wedged in there, push down and pry it. there you go, okay. >> okay, so get it over the side? >> yeah, that will work, keep going up a little further. you've just about got it, yeah, almost. there you go. if you do a thousand or two, you'll get good. >> whoa, look at that. mm, that is salty goodness. >> our thanks to ginger. up next, princess diana's wedding dress, and your chance to see it in person.

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