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To Answer Bill Barr
Here is the attack description of capsaicin gasses on the body
The European Parliament Scientific and Technological Options Assessment (STOA) published in 1998 "An Appraisal of Technologies of Political Control"[10] with extensive information on pepper spray and tear gas. They write:
The effects of pepper spray are far more severe, including temporary blindness which lasts from 15–30 minutes, a burning sensation of the skin which lasts from 45 to 60 minutes, upper body spasms which force a person to bend forward and uncontrollable coughing making it difficult to breathe or speak for between 3 and 15 minutes.
This is how CS ("tear gas" supposedly) works.
and in turn, make people unable to function, as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) explains.
Tear gases are considered lachrymator substances, meaning they cause a tearing effect of the eyes, and often times other uncomfortable symptoms. The most common types are Agent CS (chlorobenzylidenemalononitrile) and Agent CN (chloroacetophenone), although there are other compounds considered to be tear gases as well. Often grouped with tear gas is Agent OC (oleoresin capsicum), or pepper spray, or its synthetic form known as PAVA spray, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).
Agent OC and PAVA work on pain and temperature receptors in your body to incite a pain response, ACLU explains. Even small amounts can penetrate your skin and enter mucus membranes to cause severe and drawn-out pain that may last a half hour. Tear gas chemical compounds, like OC, dissolve and become a painful acidic liquid when they come into contact with water, sweat, or oil on a person’s skin or mucus membranes, the ACLU says. The moisture in the respiratory tract and mucus membranes makes these areas especially sensitive to these agents.
In other words, they both are lachrymatory, they both trigger pain receptors on contact with non-epidermal tissues, they both have the potential for long term effects.
And the immediate dissociation of pepper gasses make them harsher, short term than CS or CN.
Billy, you used a chemical agent on U.S. citizens who were just standing there. And, you idiotic parsing of words proves your stupidity because OC is, in fact, a chemical agent!
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Why not throw nachos, french fries and sugar cookies at protestors ya FKN LYIN SCUMBUCKET
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