When the only tool that FedGov goons carry is a hammer...everything starts to look like a nail. In both examples you cited, those guys occasionally went into town for food, cigarettes, and other items.
Heck, that guy David Koresh was allegedly a multi-pack chainsmoker. With that information alone, they could have arrested him by telling him he had won ten cartons in a "random drawing" or whatever.
The unnecessary bloodshed at those horrible events was tragic.
113 posted on 07/31/2017 10:20:23 AM PDT by Blue Jays
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