Dani, grenade launchers attach to the underside of M16 rifles. They can fire a variety of rounds including tear gas. They're best suited for the delivery of tear gas in urban riot control situations. Riot control police within range of delivering hand thrown tear gas canisters to a rioting crowd are also within range of that crowd to be stoned; or, burned with Molotov cocktails. When the Los Angeles Unified School District said it would remove three grenade launchers it had acquired because they "are not essential life-saving items within the scope, duties and mission" of the district's police force, they simply acknowledged that the school police are not going into the riot control business which will rest elsewhere. The capability will still exist, just with another organization. Believe it or not, in this day of modern weaponry, people are still being stoned to death by crowds:
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CONAKRY, Sept 18 (Reuters) - Eight bodies, including those of three journalists, were found after an attack on a team trying to educate locals on the risks of the Ebola virus in a remote area of southeastern Guinea, a government spokesman said on Thursday. ...
.. Fofana said the team that included local administrators, two medical officers, a preacher and three accompanying journalists, was attacked by a hostile stone-throwing crowd from the village when they tried to inform people about Ebola. ...
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