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.
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.
The chances of accidentally firing across a fucking river and hitting a moving person in the leg are approximately zero.
Eh, no, it’s not. Any idea how many people are killed by stray bullets, each year? Those parties where people start shooting in the air… Those bullets have to come back down at some point, and they do, and unfortunately too often on people too.
It may have been on purpose, it may not. Claiming it’s impossible is nonsense
It would be a casus belli, but it won’t actually result in war. There’s a difference. No matter what the situation, unless the US gives the shooter over to Mexico, it’s a perfectly justified casus belli, just a useless one because there is no way that’s happening and more diplomatic ways to handle it.
That is basically what I said. Friendly Countries don’t typically go to war over the actions of an individual