that action can overcome partisan division. serbia is taking swift action on gun violence not a progressive country, by the way. just two mass shootings in may that left seven dead and 21 injured, serbia took action. it has the third largest rate of gun ownership in the world, and it pushed through new laws with near unanimous support despite deep political divides. joining us now with more nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel. richard, how were they able to get this done? reporter: well, the secret is it wasn t even that difficult. there were these two mass shootings last month. they were extremely rare. people were outraged. they took to the streets. but they weren t just dismissed as tragedies, dismissed as part of a problem that is too difficult to confront. the people got together. the government got together. lawmakers from a variety of political parties put their differences aside, and they radically changed the entire country s relationship wit
legislation following a pair of deadly mass shootings, proving that action can overcome partisan division. serbia is taking swift action on gun violence not a progressive country, by the way. just two mass shootings in may that left seven dead and 21 injured, serbia took action. it has the third largest rate of gun ownership in the world, and it pushed through new laws with near unanimous support despite deep political divides. joining us now with more nbc news chief foreign correspondent richard engel. richard, how were they able to get this done? reporter: well, the secret is it wasn t even that difficult. there were these two mass shootings last month. they were extremely rare. people were outraged. they took to the streets. but they weren t just dismissed as tragedies, dismissed as part of a problem that is too difficult to confront. the people got together. the government got together. lawmakers from a variety of political parties put their differences aside, a
Wager. this british naval ship set off in 1740 on a secret mission with a squadron to try to capture a spanish galleon filled with treasure, but it wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of patagonia where the crew and officers slowly descending into a real life lord of the flies. there were mutinies and murder and even cannibalism. but the thing that is most striking is that some of the castaways made it back to england where they were summoned to face a court-martial for their crimes. they release an account of what happened which unleashed this war over the truth. there were competing narratives and allegations of fake news. that s timely. you see pictures of the island they crashed on. tell us about the research that went into this. how did you discover this narrative and these conflicting tales? i first came across an 18th century account by a midshipman who was 16 years old. he would later become the grandfather of the poet lord byron, whose poetry was influenced by wh
Grand dad s narrative. what is amazing is are the surprising trove of first-hand documents you can find in archives that somehow survived tidal waves, typhoons, scurvy outbreaks, naval battles. you can read them, but i also did something foolish which is i made my own journey to wager island to understand what the castaways had gone through. tell me, david, this does sound so much like lord of the flies. i m wondering if golding was inspired by this story. even the island itself is what i imagined in my mind when i was reading lord of the flies how it looks and going up. and it actually, you look at it, and there are a couple of moments, dramatic scenes near the end where it looks like it could have happened on that island. very much so. i don t know about lord of the