It did work when they did it. Not perfectly. But they cooled off that shit for a long time.
OKC is different. No one's going to have second thoughts planning or going on a raid thinking some random person may kill other people in their agency later. They might well have second thoughts if they think they are going to be the ones dead or blamed for the dead agents.
Unfortunately the only way to cool this stuff down is the way Randy Weaver and David Koresh did it, and the cost is really high for that.
Serious question, if it didn't work when they did it, why would it work now? The men who carried out those attacks are running the DOJ now.
Also OKC was chance occurrence that didn't change anything either.
It did work when they did it. Not perfectly. But they cooled off that shit for a long time.
OKC is different. No one's going to have second thoughts planning or going on a raid thinking some random person may kill other people in their agency later. They might well have second thoughts if they think they are going to be the ones dead or blamed for the dead agents.