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The other poster nailed it, most people who are suicidal have severe depression which will involve low levels of motivation, planning, concentration, and energy.
Some people with other forms of mental illness can end up violent and suicidal but those generally involve significant disorganization (medical impairment, substance abuse, psychosis, and mania).
Most people who are personality disordered and like this are also disorganized and shitty at planning (as in severe borderline personality disorder). Anti-socials and narcissists are better at forethought (ish) but typically mostly care about themselves and don't usually see the benefit of making this kind of statement.
So you need something weird like malignant narcissism, a relevant delusional disorder, and so on.
Mentally healthy and well people with other motivation (such as a person with terminal illness who is handling it well but knows they will pass away soon) are much more able to complete this type of action but don't do so because...healthy and well.
You need the perfect storm of ability, interest, and organization.
Most with those three find better ways to spend their time but politicization may change that.
we still get mass shootings by depressed people, just not assassinations. Is it just that mass shootings are easier?
Not all subjective depression and depression symptoms come from major depressive disorder. People with psychosis are also depressed, as are those with borderline personality disorder (well-ish, that's more complicated).
I've read some papers identifying the mass shooting type as typical narcissists (specifically malignant narcissist), which may be superficially depressed but it manifests in a very different way.
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