“There is no accounting for the shooting in an ultimate sense, because there’s no reason to bother these people.”
I take your point pastor, but what DonaldC and I were trying to figure out was how there was so much gunfire and relatively few casualties. An initial thought was that the FBI has become tactically inept, which is puzzling. Now we’re wondering if their purpose was to put most of these people in an up close, traumatizing crossfire with the purpose of instilling terror, and then letting them carry the message home. Something like the Byzantine atrocity towards the Bulgars.* If that is the intent, then this homicide is very deliberate, very calculated, and a tool of State policy. State terror, carefully targeted, figuratively and literally.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kleidion#Prisoners
You are spot on!