What would the U.S. do if a religious group in this country killed a lot of U.S. citizens in the name of their

Question

god, the religious zealots being U.S. citizens also? I am contrasting the difference in what is done in Afghanistan, with the taliban and ordinary Afghanistanians and a group of religious zealots here and regular U.S. citizens. I am particularly thinking about if they were willing to fight to the death.

Almost everyone missed my point. Waco was not what I had in mind. I meant if a religious sect suddenly started taking hostages, or killing people to get the U.S. to release certain people, or to change some law, etc.

Answer 1

United Statesians must abide by the laws of this nation. If a group for whatever reason killed a lot of US citizens the group would be a mob and the killings a lynching. Folks that engage in that would face the death penalty.

Answer 2

Remember Waco?

On February 28, 1993, the United States Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms (BATF) launched the largest assault in its history against a small religious community in central Texas. Approximately eighty armed agents invaded the compound, purportedly to execute a single search and arrest warrant. The raid went badly; six Branch Davidians and four agents were killed, and after a fifty-one-day standoff, the United States Justice Department approved a plan to use CS gas against those barricaded inside. Tanks carrying the CS gas entered the compound. Later that day, fire broke out, and all seventy-four men, women and children inside perished

Answer 3

Clinton made an example out of the religious zealots at Waco.

Answer 4

You mean like in 9/11?

Answer 5

like the lacy peterson case where it was thought a sitanic group was going around and killing prgnant women?
or like charles manson?

Answer 6

I assume you mean Christian Americans.

The church leader would speak out against it. If he failed to do so, the church would have it's own revolution.