Preston Brooks was never jailed for beating Charles Sumner with a cane on the senate floor.

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4. Yes and in the beginning the civil war in the US was treated like 1/6 event; a one off battle that

... will end soon and much of a small thing.

The first battle of the civil war people brought blankets and picnic baskets and chairs to watch the battle seeing it was not taken seriously either.

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/was-first-battle-bull-run-really-picnic-battle-180964084/

Tidball later described a crowd of men (and a few enterprising saleswomen who brought “pies and other edibles” to sell) eager to watch the battle. “It was Sunday and everybody seemed to have taken a general holiday; that is all the male population,” he wrote.

In attendance were a dozens of members of Congress, writes Michael E. Ruane for The Washington Post.

I'm praying we've learned from the past and will treat the 1/6 assholes according to what the US AG said; more harsh sentences for those who didn't come forward.

We're wasting time with Putin's Whore bullshit