| Diesel911 |
04-24-2014 03:01 AM |
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Originally Posted by Jorn
(Post 3319393)
If they had the same weaponry to there disposal as the ATF did at Waco in 1993, the outcome was most likely different.
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Why is a "what if" being brought up at all.
The Military that routed the Bonus Marchers had access to enough Weaponry to Kill all of them if that had been the goal. But, the goal was to get the Marchers off Federal or City Property and apparenty only enough force to do that was used.
And, that is even with the Commander exceeding His Orders.
But if you have to compare the situations I can't recall anyone saying the Bonus Marchers were in any way seriously Armed or the few that might have had their one personal Weapons with the had any will to use them.
The Civilians in the WACO incident were to some extent Armend, united under one Leader and had be somewhat conditioned to the idea that they were expected to fight.
In My own opinion that did not justify the Governments using a Sledghammer when a Tack Hammer would have done the job.
You know from working on Your Car that the in general wrong Tool does not do as good of a job as the Right one.
Part of the problem is that the ATF is known for some near illegal practices. If you had a totally legal AR-15 and one of your Neighbors saw it and confused it with a real M-16 and told the ATF He though you had a machine Gun. The ATF would kick you door in and confenscate your Gun.
After that then have been know to take the Gun and experiment with improper Lubricants and in some cases managed to get the Guns to Fire fully Automatic due to the improper and attempted to prosecute the Owner.
Others have written Articles aluding to the fact that the ATF Agents/Offiers were frequently People who the FBI and the CIA had passed on.
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