Like Rod Ansell, the Branch Davidians were demonized too after the BATF assaulted them. All the while the BATF claimed they were ambushed. Sorta hard to buy since it was the BATF who went to the home of the Branch Davidians with their guns ablazing and not the Branch Davidians going to the home of the BATF.
By the same token, it seems to me that Rod was demonized after the fact for daring to possess a gun at a roadblock which was for all likelyhood staged just for him.
Imagine if it were the Nazis coming for our guns. Knowing what we now know, would we just give them up? Maybe Rod viewed them as a form of the gestapo. They did seek to take away his right to self protection did they not?
You didn't read the article, did you?
http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/stories/s55944.htm