My next question: Was GAS available to use on members of Congress in the tunnels?

[Grasswire2]

"The members are in the tunnels. Seal them off. GET THE GAS."

Was gas available to them?

Was this an empty cry?

Or was it ready for use?

How would it be delivered? Or perhaps stored in advance?

Your thoughts?

[Ellipsis]

1. Is it get the gas or turn on the gas?

[Autumn]

4. Turn on. Which really puzzled me.

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100214990462

[dawg day]

2. I don't know-- terrifying though even if it was just a threat.

Neo-nazi scum-- wanting to make gas chambers.

[RainCaster]

3. Trumpanzees - pull my finger gas

I don't have any respect for them.

[jmbar2]

5. tear gas

Prolonged exposure in a closed space would be hard on you

[Takket]

6. this greatly disturbed me as well.........

did the terrorists have access to bio/chemical weapons? Did they make them themselves and bring them? OR did someone smuggle something out of a military stockpile to supply to them to use?

Terrifying.

[Irish_Dem]

7. Tear gas?? Or Turn On the Gas?

[Srkdqltr]

8. Some had bear spray? How awful these people are.

[LiberalArkie]

9. My thought was fire suppression gas that removes the oxygen from the air

it is used in case of a fire. Something like FM-200. Or they might have something like it that sprays tear gas out of nozzles also. Hit a switch and let it rip.

[we can do it]

12. Office buildings would have no need for fire suppression like that.

Sprinklers, yes. Halon etc, no.

[LiberalArkie]

16. The reason I thought of that is that museums and such will use the gas as water

has a tendency to destroy most historic antique items. As the whole capital is. But since tear gas hoods were under each seat, a central tear gas system makes sense also since firing the canisters usually start fires.

[soothsayer]

14. They were calling to gas the cops as the metal doors descended

So probably more like... mace? Something in canisters? Or poison

[bottomofthehill]

10. Since they came in the building un-screened

They could have come in with whatever they wanted, gasoline for Molotov cocktails, home made nerve agents (Tokyo subway attack) stolen military grade gas, or maybe just scared bullshit, but as they rushed the building and were thus unscreened, we will never know

[Arne]

11. Heard a report about 'Bear Spray' used on capital cops.

Don't know what that is.

[soothsayer]

13. Mace I believe

[woodsprite]

15. I was wondering if there were remnants of

Old gas lighting down where they were. We bought an old house when we first got married. We’re doing renovations omit and tore out a ceiling to find old gas lines for lighting. They were still hooked up, just turned off.

[woodsprite]

22. Exactly! Plumbing in a hidden powder room was still on too! nt

[Liberty Belle]

17. Perhaps they had cannisters of tear gas or worse, some form of fatal bioterror weapon

Such as what has been used in Chechnya to massacre people trapped in an indoor space.

That could point to Putin.

If they did have gas, what stopped them from using it?

[Midnight Writer]

18. Is there a natural gas pipe coming in through the basement?

I have no idea. That was my first thought.

[NotASurfer]

19. Nazi cosplay

This was the crowd wearing "Camp Auschwitz" tees. I took it as a disturbing expression of some deeply-held hatred, what they wish they could do on a mass scale to anyone and everyone they hate. They didn't come prepared to execute anybody that way, guns and gallows for this crowd.

[malaise]

20. You are asking great questions

Keep 'em coming!

[Iggo]

23. They might have convinced themselves that gas was already available for those tunnels...

...as part of the existing defenses.

Who knows? They convinced themselves of all kinda other bullshit, why not that?

I also like the answer, "Nazi Cosplay."

But really, who the fuck knows? All I know is they killed four of their friends and a cop.

[obamanut2012]

24. Tear gas, or even propane tanks

Open up a few propane tanks in a sealed area, or propane tank bombs like the Columbine kids made.

[AntiFascist]

25. They really need to get to the bottom of this...

I wonder who at the FBI is busy trying to sweep this all under the rug?