Actually to clarify, because I wrote that last response quickly: the majority of mass shootings (54%) are (or arise out of) domestic violence incidents and in those cases, the perpetrator very often tries to commit or does commit suicide after killing others. In some states, murder-suicides are disturbingly high (Florida). To me this is a disturbing facet of this issue that doesn’t get the scrutiny it should (or hardly any media attention). This doesn’t mean all or most men who commit suicide don’t do it alone or that they don’t deserve sympathy. Of course they do. So I shouldn’t have said “by and large” in my haste, in characterizing the phenomenon. But murder-suicides occur much more frequently than they should (which they shouldn’t be occurring at all, but yet they are) and it seems they may be under-reported. And when they do occur, it is almost always committed by a cis-het man (usually white), usually with a firearm and most of the time the victim is a woman. I would argue that suicide rates being so high are also part and parcel of our toxic culture.

Here are some more exact stats:

• Nine out of 10 murder-suicides involve a gun.
• 72 percent involve an intimate partner. Of these, 93 percent were females killed by their intimate partners.
• Among the incidents where females were killed by intimate partners, 94 percent involved a gun.
• Most of the killers in murder-suicides (89%) were men.
• Most of the murder-suicide victims (76%) were women.
• Of the murder-suicides involving a male murderer and three or more victims, 46 percent were perpetrated by family annihilators — murderers who kill their intimate partners and their children before killing themselves.