Word: maces
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...students learn how to carry and use Mace, a form of tear gas that temporarily blinds and burns. After completing the course, students may get a police permit to purchase and carry Mace...
...ANGELES--The University of Southern California is offering a two-hour, non-credit mini-course in self defense that certifies students to carry Mace...
...clearing stand uniformed men with four-foot super-nightsticks in their hands, their backs to the towering construction site that will someday be the Seabrook Nuclear Generating Station. Shields in hand, protesters charge, slashing at the fence with boltcutters, tugging at it with grappling hooks. A stream of mace comes from the other side, where National Guard and state police beat at the shields and try to grab the cutters. Within minutes, a pepperfogger arrives and tear gas clouds the field; but most have gasmasks and they posture and pose in symbolic resistance, some running...
...didn't hold that weekend; the press by and large was "good." The reason for that is simple, simple enough that Public Service Company will have remedied it this time around. In October, the photographers and reporters were on the protesters' side of the fence, swallowing gas and rubbing mace-reddened eyes. This time, they'll be allowed inside the cage, and the view may be more than a little different...
...long stretch of time. In October, 2000 turned out to try; a substantially larger show of force seems unlikely this time. Police and National Guard from around New England met them in numbers large enough to present convincing force. The police arsenal included tear gas, high-pressure hoses, mace, and dogs. More organized, more ruthless, and better equipped even than the most Tom Swiftian of the anti-nukers, they held all the cards, and they only played a few. If the protestors had been more numerous or more successful at any point, police could easily have turned an organized rout...