I mean, on day 1 they killed like 4 of the ATF guys. Shot them THROUGH the walls.
Only reason there weren’t more casualties on the ATF side, is because they immediately backed off after that and stayed several dozen yards back. Hard to aim at a target you can’t see, through walls, 70 yards away.
Not that I’m defending them. I’m just saying that yes, their guns WERE lethal, and they DID hold the government agents at bay. That siege went on 24/7 for like 3-4 months. It only ended when David Koresh just started killing everybody inside the compound, and burning everything.
I feel like it was the hostages, and not the guns that kept them at bay. If there weren’t white children in the compound and the government was allowed to play by the rules it does in the middle east in regards to acceptable civilian casualties, everyone in that compound would’ve been dead in an hour.
If that compound had no guns and they were armed with just knives the government would still hold off on raiding it since they would have to shoot people inside tight corridors where the possibility for civilian casualties is high.
I mean, on day 1 they killed like 4 of the ATF guys. Shot them THROUGH the walls.
Only reason there weren’t more casualties on the ATF side, is because they immediately backed off after that and stayed several dozen yards back. Hard to aim at a target you can’t see, through walls, 70 yards away.
Not that I’m defending them. I’m just saying that yes, their guns WERE lethal, and they DID hold the government agents at bay. That siege went on 24/7 for like 3-4 months. It only ended when David Koresh just started killing everybody inside the compound, and burning everything.
I feel like it was the hostages, and not the guns that kept them at bay. If there weren’t white children in the compound and the government was allowed to play by the rules it does in the middle east in regards to acceptable civilian casualties, everyone in that compound would’ve been dead in an hour.
If that compound had no guns and they were armed with just knives the government would still hold off on raiding it since they would have to shoot people inside tight corridors where the possibility for civilian casualties is high.