Consider that he got shot through his throat in his 30's and died at 46 years old, so didn't have that much time to consider other approaches. When he was young

Consider that he got shot through his throat in his 30's and died at 46 years old, so didn't have that much time to consider other approaches. When he was younger he had an experience as a policeman, which maybe is one of the reasons he was more pro-statist in his thinking that some could guess given his life experience.