First off, to make a clarification, Bean bags, rubber bullets and other LESS-than-LETHAL projectiles are never intended to be used at very close range, within 35 feet if I remember correctly. This is because at the close distant these devices have a higher probability of being NOT SO less-than-lethal. In my opinion for this situation getting shot is getting shot. There are too many variables for someone to deploy a device like that without a higher probability of shit going wrong. I want to know, if its that f*cking bad, why haven't they pulled pages from the G8/G20 and use sound cannons, etc. Tear Gas, sure. Flash bangs, why not I guess... but unless the entire crowd is actively violent (paint is so lethal to touch!), the use of rubber bullets is overkill at best.