About these mass shooter people, I wonder if they would not do such horrible things if they had access to a peaceful death. I've read some of the "manifestos" that these people leave behind, and most of it is lots of crazy BS. However, there is a bit of a common theme of "the world is awful, my life is awful, so I'm going to reflect this pain outwards."
I wonder, if the topic of suicide was not so stigmatized against to the point where you become imprisoned at the mere mention of it, then maybe these mass shooters would not have gone and killed people. I wonder if maybe they would have realized that if they really feel the need to inflict any lethal damage, they should only do it to themselves.
I mean, logically it makes sense, too. Whatever goal this shooter has is not going to be achieved by shooting 20 people. You won't get popular with girls, you won't undo the bullying you received, you won't change demographics or raise awareness or whatever. And even so, the rest of this person's life is spent in jail, so any "positive outcome" for them is meaningless. Even in a selfish point of view, suicide is the better option compared to shooting a bunch of people.
So again, I wonder if such tragedies could be avoided if suicide were not so stigmatized and if there were a peaceful way out.
Then again, I've avoided a massive hole in my logic, that being "if they have access to a gun for mass shooting, then they could have CTB at any time"
...sorry for the long semi-unrelated comment, but your post just had me thinking.