You are also forgetting about parents who divorce or one parent simply leaves the other to take care of the kids . Calling all single parents whores who deserve to be poor is not only misinformed , it ' s fucking rude as hell . <| sep |> They also held off the government TWICE first , at their ranch , and second , in Oregon . They did so without being repeatedly shot at with rubber bullets . They did it without being hit by water cannons and acoustic suppression cannons . They did it with the government at arm ' s length . Their little seige feel apart mostly due to internal strife and pack of resources . Finicum not sure of the spelling was shot while fleeing from feds , away from the refuge , alone , and surrounded . All the arrests were of people who surrendered to law enforcement . Again , while the refuge was occupied , even at the end when there were less than half a dozen people there , the occupation ended when they turned themselves in . Not as a result of an assault . Don ' t mistake me here they ' re assholes and I ' m livid that several of them were acquitted . But their armed resistance made the difference between an eventful day and a six week seige .