What you or anyone else would have done is beside the point. Who knows what Weaver would have done if it could be all done over again? The point is what actually DID happen, not could’ve would've should’ve.
I have researched this several times over the years. One can no more trust the accounts of Weaver and his followers than Lon Horuchi IMO. They are all over the place. I do know this, both parties were at fault in allot of ways. Vickie was a nut, just like Weaver, just like Gritz and a bunch more involved in this. She didnt deserve to die, but she sure deserved prison if she had lived. If not for reckless endangerment of her children.