About 3x06 and Van Heidt’s actions

This guy is wild af. Also, has me dead laughing. You are a prominent figure in town and two troublemaking kids find out who you really are and your response is to shoot yourself? You could not do that and tell them to leave. If they tell anyone it helps you because people will view them as crazy. If they keep pushing it, then you get a restraining order. Maybe their plan is to get them arrested or something? Hope their plan is more interesting than that though.