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I just watched this movie and read some of the comments on this board and I'm a little confused about why people keep calling this a massacre by the FBI. To be perfectly honest, if the Davidians actually cared about their children, they would have surrendered long before their compound burned down in order to have spared their children and other innocents. To be perfectly honest, they should never have even fired back (even if the BATF fired first). They didn't.

You can't expect the FBI or the BATF to do nothing if they're taking heavy fire from a building. They're going to fire back regardless of who’s in there. The Davidians were responsible for the deaths of all the innocents for holding out that long.

Believe it or not, there have been law enforcement operations of this magnitude before. The 1953 Sand Creek raid on a Mormon fundamentalist compound involved several hundred heavily armed police officers and over 50 National Guardsmen. Like the Davidians, the Mormons were aware that the raid was coming but rather than taking up arms, they left their compound and were found signing hymns by the assault force. All the adults were arrested, but no one was killed and the adults were quickly released. Had the Davidians followed this approach, there would have been no deaths at all. In the end, they are entirely responsible for the death of the innocents.