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It may be small comfort but storming the Capitol, or more accurately, storming parts or persons in the Capitol, did not happen for the first time on Jan. 6. In 2016, members of Congress, uninvited and unwelcome, crashed into the Sensitive Compartmented Information Facility in the Capitol. What purpose did it serve for Republicans to storm the room when over 40 Republicans could enter legally as duly appointed members of the requisite committees? Where was the dignity in violence? Where was the honor in leaving greasy pizza boxes behind when they finally vacated? In 1837, an Arkansas state representative insulted the speaker of the house during a debate. The speaker responded by murdering the representative with a bowie knife on the House floor. According to Yale Professor Joanne B. Freeman in “The Field of Blood: Violence in Congress and the Road to the Civil War,” “Expelled and tried for murder, [the speaker] was acquitted for excusable homicide and reelected, only

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