A Brevard County (Fl) Deputy was responding to a disturbance two weeks ago Tuesday where neighbors were arguing over the feeding of feral cats. The deputy got one neighbor to return to his house, the really agitated neighbor, who is the one who reported the disturbance, was not cooperating and was getting more and more agitated despite the deputy's efforts to calm him down. The subject went around a vehicle parked in his yard, grabbed a rifle and came out shooting. The deputy was hit 3 times, breaking both legs and had a handgun round hit his shooting shoulder. Fortunately, The deputy is going to recover. The perp, however, was shot by the wounded deputy and died on the scene.
See that kind of stuff is just crazy. I would suspect drugs are involved. And if not illicit drugs, then prescription psyschoactive drugs. And if not that, then how can you explain why someone would shoot another human being - let alone a police officer - over the feeding of a cat?
Of course the story is just one anecdote - thankfully it is a fraction of 1% who make such news stories. But ratchet it down a little bit, while some don’t pull out a weapon it seems to me as if a whole giant segment of society is completely off their rockers. I try to rationalize it - but maybe that is my mistake.