You really don't trust police to follow an evidence trail at all.
There are also more options than that, but you keep reinventing the circumstances to be more dire. Past a point of that you just kind of went "It becomes too inconvenient, kids gonna die."There are not. We’ve literally been through everything. I cannot think of any other option at all.
You didn't really explore turning it on him, you just kinda said "he has a weapon, I have a weapon, children don't".
I’d prefer not risking my life. Anything can happen in this situation and it is quite likely I’d end up dead for turning on him.
There is a point where you have a weapon and the guy leaves.
You think you’re skilled enough to shoot at him and not end up dead for sure?
You'd shoot children.
In a hypothetical situation that you demanded I come up with.