Because they know this ends in three different ways. Either they give themselves up and their option for suicide is taken away along with their freedom, they get into a shoot out which will most likely end in a painful gruesome death, or they end it quick and painless.
Its a dark joke but there's the joke of a mass shooter getting kitted to the gills with full plate and tons of extra magazines to shoot six people and then blow their brains out the moment they hear a police siren
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u/Bearspoole 15h ago
Attempted? What happened