what's the difference with tear gas? if you're too close to a fired canister... it's very painfull/unconfortable here, in chile, we have universitys where the students riot almost once every 2 weeks (put barricades, throw molotov cocktails, and rocks with slings, etc); the standard riot control tactic used by the police is gas them with tear gas (a lot of it) and spray them with "guanacos" (trucks with water firing devices... like a fire truck but kinda armored; btw the water they spray it's treated with irritating chemicals) so... if someone develops a way to disperse a riot... but without being able to leave your house without being subjecto to the effects to the tear gas in a 2-3 block radius of the riot... i'm in favor of it
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what's the difference with tear gas? if you're too close to a fired canister... it's very painfull/unconfortable
here, in chile, we have universitys where the students riot almost once every 2 weeks (put barricades, throw molotov cocktails, and rocks with slings, etc); the standard riot control tactic used by the police is gas them with tear gas (a lot of it) and spray them with "guanacos" (trucks with water firing devices... like a fire truck but kinda armored; btw the water they spray it's treated with irritating chemicals) so... if someone develops a way to disperse a riot... but without being able to leave your house without being subjecto to the effects to the tear gas in a 2-3 block radius of the riot... i'm in favor of it