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Since all the marines are still alive...

...it would seem the shot fired was a warning shot.  A courtesy that Bill Conroy has clearly suggested should have been returned.

Drug 'war' is rhetoric.  It has not been declared by Congress.  There has been no announcement, even now -- let alone in the 1990s -- that the border region is a 'militarized zone'.

The war on drugs, by your logic, in fact means the military or police could go in any place drugs are used -- meaning any place in the United States -- and start shooting when they want to.  Which is what the alleged war on drugs tends toward, which is why such a broad group of U.S. society opposes it.

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