Armed Combatants and “Collateral Damage”

I don’t like thinking this way, but I compare killings in Mexico to killings in war zones like present day Iran and Lebanon.

In each place there are armed combatants. They seek to do damage to other armed combatants. They know that they may kill others and that they may be killed.

In war zones like Iran, Lebanon, and other recent wars, the number of non-combatant deaths outnumber the deaths of combatants. It seems that In Mexico, non-combatant deaths are much lower than combatant deaths.

I am not interested in being a combatant. Neither am I interested in being a non-combatant fatality. But I think the latter is a low risk in Mexico as it is when I am home in Canada.

The US? I don’t know. Others would have more useful comments than I do about the number of “random killings”, “soft target” killings at places like schools, churches, synagogues, etc. there are.