That is true.

Upon further review, more advocacy redacted.

Who said any of us don't agree with this? I do. You asked for "even better". Well, I think even better would be it the attacker offed himself BEFORE attacking anybody. Advocacy redacted. I, for one, would be glad to hear of an attacker who did themselves in before attacking anybody. I consider that a plus, not a minus. It's sad when it happens, but it's better than the alternate that could have happened - the attacker killing innocent people. Not related to active shooters and thus redacted.

It is surprising how many of these incidents end with attacker suicides, which suggests mental issues. The very resolution of these incidents would be early detection and treatment of this problem which is difficult to achieve. But nobody dies and productive lives proceed.

In some cases the shooters had been in therapy before they massacred people. In two cases I can think of (Virginia Tech & Navy Yard), the soon-to-be shooters attempted to seek medical help and were turned away. I pity these men who surely knew things were going terrifyingly wrong. We really can't afford to let people slip through the crack anymore.