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4 edits | said by SRFireside:Now show proof the guns were purchased before the automatic weapons ban. I don't know about you, but when a group stockpiles a huge cache of military weapons I would want the authorities to get involved. I have a large cache of these weapons..all legally owned by me...And no, I don't need the military here to make sure I'm being good with them....thats what the background check was for...now Its MY business....
said by SRFireside:That doesn't stop the fact that they shot at police officers. The warrants were issued. They knew the police were coming. They knew why the police were coming. Do you say it's okay for a drug dealer to shoot at DEA agents because they are coming into his property? Law abiding citizens don't shoot at law enforcement officers when they KNOW it's law enforcement officers. Regardless of whether or not they felt they did nothing wrong, they did the wrong thing. I don't care who you are. Once you start shooting all bets are off. This part I agree with whole heartedly |
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"Now show proof the guns were purchased before the automatic weapons ban. I don't know about you, but when a group stockpiles a huge cache of military weapons I would want the authorities to get involved."
And, just WHAT was he going to do with a "stockpile" of weapons? Do what he did and try to defend himself? This business about weapons was only the governments excuse to raid the place, which they did without announcing their presence or presenting a warrant. Instead a ATF kill team went in and tried to sneak in and take control. They were discovers as prowlers and shot at which was, of course, the excuse for the seige.
Kill one of ours and we WILL get you, no matter what it takes, REGARDLESS of if we were wrong in the first place.
the other bottom line fact is that Koresh was in town every day, or running outside the compound and the sheriff could have scooped him up any time.
But they didn't want to do that. They wanted to do their usual gestapo crap and raid the place in full kill kit. Just scooping Koresh off the street would very likely have served to defuse the situation and lead to a peacefull surrender. |
