You missed my broader point.
If they'd tried to do that to the whole city of Waco, the entire region would have resisted with deadly force.
This is why they'll never come for our guns. It would spark an armed conflict and they'd be the losers.
They know this, which is why they've gradually tried to peel our guns away from us with gun control laws and propaganda.
Maybe if they had surrounded Waco and begin an assault, but we will never know for sure. What we do know is they confined Boston to their homes and went door to door hunting for those two kids after they set off their bomb, no one complained, as I recall.
The point is they will never make such an attack on a major city, they won't have to, they will slowly paint their targets as worse than the plague and your neighbors will help them.
Every action TV show refuses to have Muslim terrorists, they must be white militia that needs subdued. The old TV show 24 started with Muslim terrorists but next season they had to have white traitors attacking the US. Propaganda works.