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Quote by: brien It was well documented Koresh made frequent trips into Waco, even while under surveillance, so he could have easily been arrested there rather than at the compound. It was the government that picked the location for the fight, not Koresh. |
No one's saying that the feds didn't screw up in not doing so. They chose to treat Koresh as armed and dangerous and take him by surprise, out of harms way. Big mistake.
However, it's also well documented that Koresh found out about the raid in advance and chose to set up an armed ambush. It's also well documented that he was a messianic psychopath, whose preachings focused on armageddon and his self fulfilling prophecies of conflagration. He was Jim Jones who chose death by cop rather than Cool Aid. The ONLY reason for Koreshs' lasting cult appeal is that he died in the name of gun rights, and for that you're willing to forgive all else in order to make him a 2nd Amendment hero.
MOVE and the SLA also died in conflagrations at the hands of law enforcement, but you don't give a flying fig about them, right? Why? Cuz they were black or because their arsenals weren't the issue?
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