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In article <3922ad27.5139494@news.ican.net>,
  Ivan Gowch <gowch@SPAMMENOThotmail.com> wrote:
> On 16 May 2000 21:43:42 -0400, wb8foz@panix.com (David Lesher) wrote:
>
> ==>Ivan Gowch <gowch@SPAMMENOThotmail.com> writes:
> ==>>The issue of self-defence is hardly relevant here.  The fact is
that
> ==>>it's stupid beyond belief -- suicidal, in fact -- to engage a
heavily
> ==>>armed force of government gunmen in a firefight.
>
> ==>Without taking sides here, the above supposes you KNOW the heavily
> ==>armed dudes, piling out of a cattle trailer spraying lead, clad in
> ==>ninja suits, are in fact G-men.....
>
> As I'm sure you know, the BATF did not approach the compound "spraying
> lead."
>

No..  At least, not in the way that the phrase, "spraying lead", would
conotate.    However, from everything I've seen and read, I do believe
that it's quite probable that someone on the BATF side got scared, or
trigger happy, and fired.

> And, last I heard, the Branch Davidians were not engaged in an armed
> struggle with a rival cult who could be expected to assault the Waco
> redoubt clad in kevlar and carrying automatic weapons.
>

How is this relevant?


> - Ivan Gowch <gowch@hotmail.com>
>


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