He nods solemnly, "I heard how the previous attempt went. Should something happen I will do what I can to shoulder the blame myself, though I would like to prevent it from getting to that point if at all possible."

Likewise he had a few problems with an overall punishment. There was a kid here, could be a few more. He didn't like the idea of putting some defenseless snot-nosed little runts in danger... even if most of them did annoy the crap out of him.