A soldier with the Texas National Guard allegedly fired a gun near the U.S.-Mexico border, hitting a 22-year-old man across the border in Mexico.
Mexican authorities and an advocate for human rights say the bullet crossed the border from El Paso on Saturday near the Bridge of the Americas.
It then struck the man in the leg in Ciudad Juarez.
According to the Border Network for Human Rights (BNHR), that man was not attempting to cross the border, but practicing sports with a group.
If this happened as described, it’s an overt act of war and Mexico is within its rights to invade the US, if it had the capability.
No it’s not.
It might have been an accidental firing, it may have been some retard racist, it may have been twenty other things. Either way, two friendly neighbours that need each other’s economies would not and should not start murmuring about war over relatively small incidents like these.
Yes, it hugely sucks for the victim and the US should financially pay for everything but that is what you have diplomats for.
No. That’s not at all right. Accidents happen, no two countries are going to go to war over one random person accidentally shot.
It isn’t going to lead to a nice conversation, but that doesn’t mean it could (or should) lead to a war.
Well no. A single dumbass soldier has never been a casus belli.
I mean… Archduke Franz Ferdinand was killed by a single man