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Having the drone police/army to replace human police/army is priced into "not needing the consent of the governed".
The Second Amendment apologia usually goes "we might not have tanks or jets, but the occupation has to deploy boots on the ground to police us, and a rifle is enough to deter those". Good luck with that against something that doesn't have names, families, addresses or the fear of death.
The Oklahoma City bombing involved 0 rifles.
The one that accomplished nothing I'm aware of and will be vastly more difficult to repeat when the ones you want to bomb don't even have to live next to you?
Indeed the very fact that it was done 30 years ago says something about the viability. Why isn't it done more? Asking purely hypothetically and not as a way to endorse, of course. But it's not like there aren't motives for such acts today.
Without wanting to sound supportive of an actual terrorist (McVeigh deserved his fate), there are decent (IMO) arguments that Oklahoma City led to some soul searching on the part of the Feds. It might have happened anyway, but Waco and Ruby Ridge weren't really openly investigated until afterward. It led to a shift in attitudes towards far-right elements, away from "go in with tanks, guns blazing" towards standoffs and more peaceful resolutions that, arguably, has continued through the Bundy standoffs a decade ago. See also the major shifts in gun laws since the 90s: there's a half-decent argument that the more peaceable right wingers won in the PR space.
Not just the PR space; People have been pointing out as of late that with the shift in NFA registration/tax stamp, the most recent wins in the courts, and the ATF more or less stating outright they're not going to argue the point, people are now capable of doing things free and clear that would have had the Federal Government gleefully murdering your wife and kids and celebrating about it afterwards.
Granted, that line of logic leads to places alot of people don't want to go. Conversely, given how the Days of Rage worked out for the left, well...
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