Pacifists don't get anywhere but neither do the War Pigs. Eternal peace breeds eternal love. Eternal war breeds eternal hate.
Looking a gun in the face, just a finger away from the great beyond and doing nothing about it and accepting that your soul will go on won't do you any good.
Your family weeps and your future bleeds out on the hard concrete in the faces of everyone who has ever loved you and hoped for you. You don't have to win but you have to fight. You don't have to sin but you've got to have might. You have the right. You have your sight. So just fight. And you will go on.