My, how time flies when you're waiting for the apocalypse! I don't believe there was ever much question that the Branch Dravidians were heavily armed and all set to "throw down with violence the great City of Babylon."
The show down with those religous nuts who insisted on including their own children in their little war was also the precursor to the horrific Oklahoma City bombing where all those poor kids in the daycare center located in the Federal Building were killed.
Twenty years later and things have scarcely improved with the deaths of those 20 babies in Newtown. How long must this slaughter of the innocents at the altar of the Second Amendment continue?
