He thinks to himself “Yes, someone willing to kill me would certainly not shoot me in the head if my child was near there,” not thinking about the fact that many vital organs are below the child.
Kid might get hurt in the fall but to make an omelet and all that.
There’s a sidewalk on the left of the screen, by regulation a “highway” shouldn’t have a sidewalk so therefore the kid is likely playing in a boulevard or something else with a dividing median.