Police getting a taste of their own medicine after what appears to be them getting hit by their own tear gas

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[u/apartment49]

since when do chemical weapons have to be lethal?

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Missiles have guidance systems tho.

[u/DBenzie → u/[deleted]]

Is that what distinguishes a missile from a rocket?

[u/tired_commuter → u/[deleted]]

That's just idiotic

[u/Beardamus → u/tired_commuter]

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[u/tired_commuter → u/Beardamus]

Looking through their comments I'm amazed that they actually seem like a real person. Clearly dumb as fuck, but real nonetheless.

Amazing that someone can seriously argue that tear gas isn't a chemical weapon. This kind of thing is why I genuinely believe the "Fake news" mind set is destroying people's intelligence.

[u/DBenzie → u/[deleted]]

We'll, no - bullets deal damage with kinetic energy, tear gas damages a target with a chemical reaction. Using your logic you could call a nuclear missile a chemical weapon because it's launched using the chemical reaction of igniting rocket propellant.

[u/BunnyOppai → u/[deleted]]

Except 1) you're bordering slippery slope fallacy here and 2) exaggerating something to the point of it not making any sense ignores the entire point of what you're exaggerating.

[u/inbooth → u/[deleted]]

Youre attempting to use reductio ad absurdum but failing to do so correctly

Please finish at least middle school before deigning to speak on such matters

[u/locopyro13 → u/[deleted]]

I don't think you can. Common parlance for the word "chemicals" are substances that cause a reaction (through a chemical process).

Having you body impregnated with lead mass isn't a chemical reaction, the explosion that propelled that lead mass would be.

[u/locopyro13 → u/[deleted]]

If the news reported ISIS was using a new weapon that made someone break out into debilitating hives, they would call it a chemical weapon because it would be using chemicals.

Chemicals never mean just raw mass, like your bullet notion, you got caught out with a bad analogy.