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You Can Buy The Tear Gas Used On UC Davis Students On Amazon.com

You, too, can repress students with tear gas thanks to Amazon.com.

Apparently, you can buy the tear gas used on UC Davis students last week — which is almost strong enough to be used to control bears — on Amazon.com.

The irony of such a powerful crowd control weapon being available to buy on a consumer website is not lost on a group of reviewers, who have written comedic reviews of the product, praising it for being the best to repress students:


Lest you might be worried about the ramifications of selling brutal crowd control weapons on Amazon.com, the site does also offer pepper spray reliever (through an outside link to Sierra Post).

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