Because, of course, we don't take the advice of Other People. I'm quite certain that it was because no one had Good Advice.

Would rather that the FBI, etc. pulled a Waco? Or an Iranian Embassy siege? A Sidney Street?

Personally, I thought from the first that surrounding the place with concrete barriers, cutting all electricity, pulling the plug on all cell phone and other service, and letting no one in and those coming out being arrested, would have ended the thing a lot sooner.

Even thirty miles from a town a bullet will land somewhere, and while the folks there are spread out rather thinly they are still there.