There’s a “slight” difference between tear gas and chemical weapons. Ones cause temporary (but very strong) inconvenience (of course there maybe some one off complications), others are designed to kill you, as efficiently as possible.
See: https://www.salon.com/2020/06/02/trump-may-have-broken-inter...
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https://www.nytimes.com/2021/01/21/us/protests-portland-seat...
It’s insulting to people who were killed/disabled as a result of chemical weapons.
While those killed by conventional weapons rejoice in heavens. Hypocrisy has no bounds.
See https://www.opcw.org/chemical-weapons-convention/articles/ar... .
The fact that it seemed to be impacting women’s menstrual cycles in my city makes me concerned about long term issues related to exposure (fertility among them): https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/01/us/period-tear-gas-study-...
Clearly this needs some study.
It’s certainly true that the people exposed to this gas are not currently dead, I’ll give you that.