Y’all may have noticed that over the years I get kinda twerked when I hear about a local cat that has been abused by a human. A lot of this is of course because I like cats and cannot countenance abusing them; and a lot of it is that abuse of a cat is a damn big sign that abuse of humans is coming. And well what do you know, it turns out that the Buffalo mass shooter, a left-wing white supremacist nutter, did horrible things to a cat. What’s more, he published reports of this online. Given that he was on law enforcement radar, this *should* have been picked up on.

Buffalo mass shooting suspect wore hazmat suit to school once in-person learning resumed

The hazmat suit thing, I dunno. It may have been that the governments efforts to create fear among the public worked especially well on this kid. Or it may be that he was having a laugh. I could believe either. But later the story relates that on March 25 he described repeatedly stabbing, beating and eventually beheading a feral cat that had attacked his pet cat. I get being irritated that a feral cat has attacked your pet. But the description of his response to this is wholly bugnuts. It was the sort of thing that should have gotten him a nice little visit from the sort of people who should pay nice little visits to kids who are demonstrably wacko.

And on the subject of mass shootings, here’s one from a few days ago that received virtually none of the media traction that the Buffalo shooting did. There are a few important differences:

1. The Milwaukee incident resulted in 21 injuries, but no deaths.
2. The Milwaukee incident had at least 11 arrests.

One might argue that the Milwaukee incident is less important than Buffalo because there were fewer deaths. But I would argue that incompetent marksmanship is no reason to not pay attention to the attempt. I would argue that a mass shooting involving perhaps a dozen or more shooters is more important than one lone wacko. Lone wackos are… well, alone. But groups? That’s *bad* on a whole other level.