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Politics : Stop the War! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: TigerPaw who wrote (14580)	4/19/2003 11:20:13 AM
From: Edscharp	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 21614

TigerPaw, "Unless, of course, the person who fired the riot gas is planning to charge the coughing crowd with an M60 Machine Gun" I think you're trying to reach a bit too far this time. The whole point of using a riot gas agent is to avoid a lethal alternative. Somebody interested in machine gunning a crowd of people wouldn't try to disperse them first by using riot gas. Riot gas is frequently used in urban situations where you have a large crowd of civilians that need to be disbursed. And, there are a lots of incidents where the use of this type of gas does save lives. If you're a nervous policeman watching a large angry crowd coming towards you you might want an alternative to using your service pistol. Riot gas is almost never used against armed combatants because it doesn't act fast enough to prevent them from using their weapons.