Did you know that colluding with Russia also is banned and so is conspiracy to betray America?
That is also banned. My point is, Trump does this and worse and Barr lets him so who cares about such silliness as tear gas. We have assault rifles, baby!
I knew that. It goes back to the horrors of WWI. Poison gas of all types are banned in war, due to the indiscriminate nature of the death they can cause.
It is important to note civilian police are governed by different rules and standards than soldiers in combat.
This post was edited by Don Barzini at August 7, 2019 3:06 PM MDT
Interestingly, it wasn't until 1993 that tear gas was banned ... though it was first used in 1914. And the US Chemical Warfare Service developed tear gas grenades for use in riot control in 1919.
It is my belief that gases were generally abandoned as weapons in warfare as a whole, driven as much by the Geneva Convention as for their unwanted side effects.
Tear gas is used by police forces as a deterrent. A one sided use by a military would be used as a blinding agent to enable them to be shot easier. What about stench agents? Are they banned?
Seriously. I picked one up once, not knowing the butyric acid was in them. Gag? Some idiot planted it in a park I used to go to. The berries are white, about the size of a small grape.
thank you. I was hoping for a gas that I could transport and not get busted. Maybe I can come as John Q. Public and accidently drop and smash berries as I tour the White House like bread crumbs in Hansel and Gretel.
Forget about tear gas. GREENHOUSE GASSES are stopping the planet. WE MUST ACT NOW and quit producing meat and eating meat.
There are a billion cattle being tortured and killed for hamburgers. WE ARE BEING KILLED BY OUR MORON HUMAN BEINGS WHO JUST DON'T WANT TO BELIEVE IT. THEY WANT THEIR BURGERS.
THIS IS NUTS`. We are in effect eating methane burgers. The statistics of what a cow produces in dangerous gasses is equivalent to 50 cars being driven for a mile.
That is what we are facing. One hamburger costs lives and ignoramuses who eat them do not see it so they do not care. Let other people worry about it, like their KIDS for example.
This post was edited by WM BARR . =ABSOLUTE TRASH at August 8, 2019 3:30 PM MDT
I heard recently that we should be using insects as a food ... rather than large animals (chickens, goats, pigs, cows). Which ... along with Burger King announcing the "Impossible Whopper" ... got me to thinking about the first fast food corporation to announce the "Bug Burger".
Don Barzini 