[harpseal]

Instead of something like valium to calm people down I for one favor using .5obmg rounds to calm the rioters. After one or two hits from the business end of an M2 very few people will continue to engage in rioting. Further, the cost of the .50BMG rounds is far less than some chemical agent. I fail to understand the desire for a non-leathal means of stopping rioters.

[Overtaxed]

My thoughts exactly.

[posterkid]

I fail to understand the desire for a non-leathal means of stopping rioters.

Do you TRUST the government? Do you believe that rioters are the only crowds they would seek to disperse? Do you trust everyone who may at one point be in the government? What about when they decide to drug rallies? What if it is a rally you agree with?

I'm imagining an NRA Million-Gun-March on the Washington Mall... after which the military/natguard dopes you all with valium or something else...

[Doctor Stochastic]

These would have been very effective against the Republican "rioters" (as described by the Press who never lie) who "intimidated" the Florida Elections Commission (or some one of that ilk) in fall 2000.