Honestly... it's amazing there are still good people willing to fight for the humans, despite how they've been treated all this time. They act like they're kicking around a stray dog but it's more like they're poking at a tiger.

[So many mutants could wipe out humanity if they all banded together to do it; his own mother proved that, apparently, and it's luck that her target was ultimately depowering the mutants themselves. It could very easily have been mass genocide.]