Vs. bullets

"I kind of lost it. Stole a gun from a friend and went hunting." He chuckled darkly. "Wasn‘t as good at it then. But I got the guy
that got my brother before they got me. The rest of his crew had me cornered in an alley. Then, suddenly, Riley was there,
between me and them. I remember thinking he was the whitest guy I‘d ever seen. He didn‘t even look at the others when they shot him. Like the bullets were flies. You know what he said to me? He said,  ̳Want a new life, kid?"