Yeah I think cases where the shooter is apprehended alive is the exception rather than the rule in these shootings. And as you rightly point out, in many of these cases there were big warning signs before the shooting actually happened. I don't know what the answer is as far institutionalization but it's something worth discussing.
The tough thing about these shootings is that there's really no punishment that can dissuade someone who wants to be killed during the commission of their crime.
I don't know what the answer is as far institutionalization but it's something worth discussing.
Yep, it's clearly not a general answer. It's "obvious" in the three cases I cited, but even in 20/20 hindsight, under e.g. the old rules, it does not seem like it would have happened with the shooters behind the Charleston, Sandy Hook, and Littleton, Colorado (high school) shootings, and a whole bunch more. Heck, the perpetrator of that incident of "workplace violence" at Fort Hood was himself a psychiatrist, and, not particularly mentally ill.
The tough thing about these shootings is that there's really no punishment that can dissuade someone who wants to be killed during the commission of their crime.