Why end your life as an unknown abject failure when you can become 'infamous'? Unfortunately the media only encourages that view. And retards on Imgflip that keep spamming the same pictures of murderers.
https://www.infoplease.com/us/crime/homicide-rate-1950-2014 notice how the crime rate was lowest in 1957 where there was lot less gun control and highest in 1980 and 1991 where there was a lot of gun control.