The Waco massacre was an indefensible cruelty that represents the price innocent men, women, and children were forced to pay for the average citizen's Constitutional ignorance.

The murderers of the Branch Davidians are still free, and will probably remain so. We do not live in a just world. But someday we will live in a free world and when we do, Waco will be recognized as a battleground where innocents fought and died to protect their rights and made it possible for others to warn the rest of the country what can happen in the good old USA.

I believe there will not be gun confiscation in the US. One reason gun confiscation will fail is that the unexpected defenders of the Second Amendment will be the politically correct. Waco was their first wake-up call. Some of them heard it.


"Whatever happened at Waco, these facts remain: It is not against the law to hold irregular religious beliefs. It is not illegal to hold and trade firearms. It is legal to defend your own home against armed assault, if that assault is illegal. . . the federal government, from the top down, treated the Branch Davidians as if those rights did not apply."
Roger Ebert, Chicago Sun Times, 9/97, from his review of Waco: The Rules of Engagement.