Another major school shooting today ... Newtown, Conn

He fired into a home blindly and the government once more settle for doing so.

he acts of a few demonizes the whole?

That's an interesting take on it Bill.
More people die from civilians having guns than die at the hands of government officials. You sure you want to keep that stance?

At the time he was firing at a suspect that was fleeing.

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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lon_Horiuchi

Boundary County, Idaho Prosecutor Denise Woodbury, with the help of special prosecutor Stephen Yagman, charged Horiuchi in state court with involuntary manslaughter over his killing of Vicki Weaver. The U.S. Attorney filed a notice of removal of the case to federal court, which automatically took effect under the statute for removal jurisdiction[10] where the case was dismissed by U.S. District Judge Edward Lodge on May 14, 1998, who cited the supremacy clause of the Constitution which grants immunity to federal officers acting in the scope of their employment.[2]
The decision to dismiss the charges was reversed by an en banc panel of the Ninth Circuit, which held that enough uncertainty about the facts of the case existed for Horiuchi to stand trial on state manslaughter charges.[2] Ultimately, the then-sitting Boundary County prosecutor, Brett Benson, who had defeated Woodbury in the 2000 election, decided to drop the charges because he felt it was unlikely the state could prove the case and too much time had passed. Yagman, the special prosecutor, responded that he "could not disagree more with this decision than I do."[11]
The Ninth Circuit granted Boundary County's motion to dismiss the case against Horiuchi on September 14, 2001.[12]

That fleeing suspect was given a few hundreds thousands dollars by the federal government to settle a wrongful shooting claim.

An criminal charges at the state level seems to had been level against the sniper and then dismiss over the federal/state power issues.

ole is your friend, huh Bill? Sixty-five houses burned in Philadelphia, n

The armored vehicles used in Waco were used to introduce tear gas into the building, not to knock it down.

And yet most of them died next to a concrete block wall.

Hmm.... methinks you don't know your facts Bill.

The fire and the smoke killed them in the end but so what?

Once more the question come to mind so what they died and the children I always hear died from the fire and a wall collapsing due to the fire or the smoke or the heat or bullet holes they died due to the actions of the government unless you believe that they set the fire and I do not for a second.

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