Re:The business of tear gas
by ashtonkem on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @12:23PM
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It shocks the conscience that the US police regularly use equipment and tactics that would be a war crime in foreign countries.
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Not really. CS is banned by a technicality. An irritant gas is hard to distinguish from a lethal one and easily swapped if chemical delivery systems are already present on the battlefield.
CS is quite useless against a conventional force because all modern armies are equipped with protective masks in case the other side does use chemical or biological weapons.
Re:The business of tear gas
by reaperducer on Tuesday June 02, 2020 @03:19PM
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If you think that tear gas isn't being used in foreign countries, then you haven't watched television news in the last 40 years.