MEXICO CITY: Britain's ambassador to Mexico was removed from his post after allegedly pointing an assault rifle inside a vehicle carrying embassy staff, reports said on Friday (May 31). The UK government said it had taken "appropriate action" after the incident, without confirming that Jon Benjamin had bee
  • @[email protected]English
    21•6 months ago

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

    • @[email protected]English
      24•6 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.

    • Flying SquidMEnglish
      13•6 months ago

      Because Mexico has a wee bit of a gang murder problem.

    • @[email protected]English
      10•6 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.

    • @[email protected]English
      4•6 months ago

      Uh, what?

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

    • @FangedWyvern42English
      4•6 months ago

      UK ambassador

      Mexico

      You answered your own question there.