Josh Clark

to get the attention of Congress and be like, see, this is what you give us money for.

So they had every incentive to go in unnecessarily roughly.

Yes, and there is a lot of disagreement still today who was the first one to shoot, right?

Right.

So the Branch Davidians say that the feds fired first and the feds obviously say the Branch Davidians fired first.

The the thing that supports the Branch Davidians claim is that there was an ATF agent who was part of the raid.

who apparently told an investigator right after the raid that they may have shot first because one of the agents shot a dog as they were coming into the compound and that that would have set off all of the shooting in general.

He apparently later retracted that when asked about it.

But apparently the Branch Davidians also say that their dogs were shot too.

So it's entirely possible that that's when the shooting started.

It's also possible the Branch Davidians started shooting first.

Yeah.

So, like you said, this was like a war.

People died here.

Like, I think four agents died during this raid.

I mean, the Branch Davidians had, like, massive firepower.

And I think six Branch Davidians were killed in the exchange as well.

A bunch more were wounded.

David Koresh was wounded.

And all of a sudden, this raid...