MSNBC The 11th Hour With Brian Williams October 24, 2019 03:51:00
Intimidation. so it wasn't necessarily about bloodshed. it was about bullying more than anything else. >> talk about how firearms were viewed, were carried. were they on a per capita pro-rated basis more pervasive and likely to be used today? >> well, for sure there was a lot of firearms in this period around. but if we're talking specifically about congress, there were a good number of congressmen who were armed. southerners were more likely to be armed for a time than northerners, sometimes with pistols, sometimes with bowie knives. but part of what happens in the 1850s, as things really beg...