Problem: you only interviewed 5 out of 172 shooters? Fundamentally, the biggest mystery is how extreme depression and hopelessness, states of deep ANS immobilization, somehow pivot into highly mobilized/sympathetic states of conceiving, planning and carrying out acts of extreme violence? The point is, if a person still has that much executive capacity and fight in them, why the suicide ideation and path?
Problem: you only interviewed 5 out of 172 shooters? Fundamentally, the biggest mystery is how extreme depression and hopelessness, states of deep ANS immobilization, somehow pivot into highly mobilized/sympathetic states of conceiving, planning and carrying out acts of extreme violence? The point is, if a person still has that much executive capacity and fight in them, why the suicide ideation and path?