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.

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

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.

UK ambassador

Mexico

You answered your own question there.

Uh, what?

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