If it comes down to my life or theirs, I'm not planning to just roll over and die. Just because I'm willing to fight for their right to choose their own path doesn't mean I'm forfeiting my right to defend myself.

Dealing with them in the permanent sense is the absolute last resort, though.

[he doesn't look happy to even be entertaining the possibility that taking them out is on the table, even if it's clear at the opposite end of that table and buried under a mountain of second chances.]