He doesn't.
But it comforts him to believe that kind of stuff. When he is shot for "noncompliance" the thought that they would not have shot if he had not breathed will console him.
And what truly heroic thing would you have done in this situation to survive?
I would have never been in this situation because I do not go drinking and waving my weapons around in a hotel window days after a horrific hotel shooting situation.
And you have no reason to determine whether I am “comforted “ by this or not. I do not plan on making the bad life decisions this person made which put him in that situation, so comfort has no part in it.
Boy, talk about stuck on stupid.
You hopscotch and play simon says with the cops.
I’m going to sit still and let them cuff me.