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Looking at instances from Napoleon giving the angry crowd "a whiff of grapeshot" to the Armistar Massacre of 1919, we often see soldiers using live rounds on protesters. When did states adopt the (mostly) non-lethal suite of tear gas + truncheons + rubber bullets for crowd control?

by /u/AndrewSshi in /r/AskHistorians

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