• maynarkh@feddit.nl
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    5 months ago

    Why does the UK ambassador to Mexico carry an assault rifle in their vehicle in the first place?

    • wewbull@feddit.uk
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      5 months ago

      I can well believe that security staff in such a vehicle would have weapons like that.

      I suspect it’s a situation where somebody with no gun awareness picked up a weapon he wasn’t supposed to as a very badly thought out joke. If so, I have no problem with somebody who has that kind of judgement being recalled.

    • tal@lemmy.today
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      5 months ago

      Rough neighborhood.

      Benjamin was on a work trip to a northwestern Mexican region plagued by drug cartel violence when the incident happened, the Financial Times reported.

      Foreign officials often travel with bodyguards when visiting danger zones in Mexico, it noted.

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      5 months ago

      Uh, what?

      I doubt there are any political types in Mexico that don’t travel with security and powerful guns