Uvalde Shooter and Others Share a Common Trait: Cruelty to Animals
Published May 31, 2022 by PETA.
If
reports are true that Uvalde shooter Salvador Ramos appeared in videos holding a bag of dead cats before he opened fire on defenseless children, it would come as no surprise to PETA. The FBI has identified cruelty to animals as a warning sign of
more violence to come, and amid
an epidemic of youth violence, PETA urges everyone to report every act of cruelty and calls on authorities to take every animal abuse claim seriously—for the sake of the animal victims and the many other lives that may depend on it.
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In just the past few weeks, the media have covered cases of similar youth violence toward animals.
Teens in Colorado allegedly
flushed a live squirrel down a toilet, a Tennessee teen reportedly
posted a video of another teen beating a dog to death, and in Florida, a group of students allegedly
gutted a shark and hung the animal from the school rafters. In each of these cases, TeachKind—PETA’s humane education division—contacted local school districts in order to provide them with our compassion-building curricula.
Many school shooters and serial killers have a history of abusing animals....
