British ambassador to Mexico sacked after pointing gun at embassy employee

4 comments

1. “He was responsible for the creating and implementing an academy giving the British foreign service, and others working internationally for the government, the skills and diplomatic and linguistic knowledge they needed to implement UK foreign policy.”

   Apart from what I feel is incorrect wording, this clownshoe was responsible for imparting skills and knowledge to OTHERS!?

2. > assault rifle

   > a semi-automatic weapon

   Sigh. I know most people don’t care but I do wish that journalists wouldn’t use technical terms without knowing what they mean. “Gun” works fine in most cases (in a civilian context) and is much less likely to be wrong.

   (Some Googling suggests it’s the short carbine version of the Mexican FX-O5 – I don’t know if that’s a left hand version or if it’s flipped photo – or if it has a non-reciprocating charging handle or something on the left hand side?)

3. I mean obviously the headline contains the word “gun” so you guys are going to lose your shit but this really isn’t a big deal.

4. Absolute moron. In that part of Mexico someone could easily have pointed a gun at _him_. They wouldn’t have known whom he was, they would just have lit him up.

   What a diplomatic disaster that would have been.