The patriarch of the family at Ruby Ridge, Randy Weaver, was possibly a racist and definitely involved with illegal gun sales, yet most concede his wife and fourteen-year-old son should not have been killed. The entire siege was confusing and probably unnecessary. The leader of the Branch Davidians, David Koresh, claimed to be the messiah and was accused of pedophilia. The Davidians were stockpiling automatic weapons and believed the world was ending. But they weren’t endangering the local community, skeptics insist the blaze was intentionally started by the government,[*] and some of the
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