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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 wer...

Professor roth it was very different. They did not have the technology we have today. When you talk about violence loadingswords or muzzle firearms, it takes quite a while to reload. Even if you are skilled, it takes 30 seconds to reload. By the time you pour the powder, tip down the shot, put on the perversion cap and get ready, the person you were trying to kills should be a halfmile away. So, these were really mass murders were a lot of people got together to do these things. Other examples very early in our history. When you think about the pequot war. We talk about that as a war. But what...

Spoke to us at the American Historical Association in january. This is about 20 minutes. Bill we are joined by randolph roth, history professor at ohio state university, here to talk to us about Mass Violence and Domestic Violence. Mass violence has a certain connotation today. How would it have been different in the 1850s . Prof. Roth it was very different, because in our past, mass killings were very common. But it was a group activity. You just did not have the technology for an individual to kill as many people as you do today. When you are talking about violence done with knives or swords...

You just did not have the technology for an individual to kill as many people. When you are talking about violence primarily done with knives or swords, or muzzleloading firearms you know, it takes a while to reload. Even if you are skilled, it takes 30 seconds to reload one of those things. By the time you pour in the powder, tampa down the shot tamp down the shot, put on the percussion cap, and get ready, the person you are trying to kill should be half a mile away. It is very difficult. These were mass murders where a lot of people got together to do these things. We can get examples very e...

The american historical Associations Annual meeting in denver this past january. This is about 20 minutes. Bill we are joined by randolph roth, history professor at ohio state university, here to talk with us about Mass Violence and Domestic Violence. Mass violence has a certain connotation today. How would it have been different in the 1850s . Prof. Roth it was very different because in our past, mass killings were quite common, but it was a group activity. You just did not have the technology for an individual to kill as many people. When you are talking about violence primarily done with kn...