We are here to talk about Mass Violence. How would that have been different in the 1850s . It would have been very different. In our past, mass kill wrgs quite common but it was a group activity. You didnt have the technology for an individual to kill as many people as an individual can kill today. When youre talking about violence done primarily with knives or swords or muzzleloading firearms, it takes quite a while to reload, even if youre a skilled person, it take 30s seconds to reload one of those things and by the time you pour in the powder, stamp down the wad, tamp down the shot, put on the percussion cap and get ready, the person youre trying to kill should be a half mile away. Its very difficult. So these were really mass murders where a lot of people got together to do these things. We have examples early in our history. Talk about the pequot war, they had surrendered, they were hiding out in a swamp, the remnants of them, 700 women, children and men. Surrounded the swamp and
Bill we are here to talk about Mass Violence. How would that have been different in the 1850s . Randolph it would have been very different. In our past, mass kill wrgs quite common but it was a group activity. You didnt have the technology for an individual to kill as many people as an individual can kill today. When youre talking about violence done primarily with knives or swords or muzzleloading firearms, it takes quite a while to reload, even if youre a skilled person, it take 30 seconds to reload one of those things and by the time you pour in the powder, stamp down the wad, tamp down the shot, put on the percussion cap and get ready, the person youre trying to kill should be a half mile away. Its very difficult. So these were really mass murders where a lot of people got together to do these things. We have examples early in our history. Talk about the pequot war, they had surrendered, they were hiding out in a swamp, the remnants of them, 700 women, children and men. The others
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