Why is fighting in parliament so common?

Ugandan MPs in fist fights last week.PHOTO|FILE

What you need to know:

  • The incident occurred on May 22, 1856, in the US Senate when Representative Preston Brooks attacked Senator Charles Sumner, an abolitionist, with a walking cane in retaliation for a speech given by Sumner two days earlier in which he fiercely criticised slaveholders including a relative of Brooks.

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