Or Diggle knows how to shoot people without it being lethal. As an ex Special Forces operative, I'd say that that's well within his capabilities.
special force's operator actually people in the military made this saying specific cause they don't like to be called operatives cause half them don't do anything like under cover work or more past shooting people and working in team with their only gear being guns . they do covert work in sense of assaults and yes they do recuse people that are operatives one of lower class in the spy world . though but they(people llike diggle) are called operator's to the rest of the spy world. that's as far most of them like to be called that don't want to go cause don't those actually want do spy work after they retire from the military special force's and join an agency and become operatives (learn new skills) and become an agent(upgrade) which is above operative and or officer or manager which is above them both.
seeing that diggle is always attached to the squad he'd be a operator still. Since they always have diggle do no more then raid and gun's only style missions.
he doesn't do bug and surveillance work enough and alot of other stuff like take DNA samples or lock pick for covert forensic work, if he was doing more under cover missions or other stuff like setting mission's or bug and surveillance work or covert forensic work past just assaults with guns . then he'd be called different . And Argus is overly Military(look up DC's description ) so he's soldier class /operator.
As to what Herolee said he's right but it's clear that Amanda Waller and argus in this show doesn't have her people trained properly for control reasons( assuming the writers of this show actually know spy world, unlike others that have researched it and done it right) other wise she'd wouldn't have thing go her way with them.
Which is a shame I noticed after they made it clear that Oliver at the end of season 2 said he as an Argus assasine which made me suspect some thing as wrong when he said he had trouble dealing with slade strategically and they said he worked for an agency .
when you complain the way Oliver did after an agency took you in and further trained you, something is seriously wrong. they are supposed to make you better and show stuff your past trainer doesn't know or dream of. And then we see he wasn't trained well at all with the only interrogation technique she taught, which isn't her place to teach head's of agency don't train "the operatives, agents or officers or assassin's " only people that are still field commissioned do and that Technique is not for all situations and is usually considered the worst interrogation method.
Oliver has bragged to Barry that he has tactical intuition and diggle once said he's the smartest man he knew. but the show shows other wise . it's just strange and funny the show has them say these thing's, but us the fans that take notice fan's are left looking at that saying what????? he wasn't smart if at all then with this or that???
like in the past(flash back) at tommy party when he came back and killed the drug dealer that was giving thea drugs and left potential evidence(hand prints all over that body) all over his body which the writers shoved under a rug. boy those cop look stupid as well.
season 2 was good cause there as a villain like Slade yes and I think most people were distracted with him(slade). But missed the warning signs at the mid & latter end of it, from the writers weird mis steps. there some stuff leaving some hints that marc and the writers with out the people from the flash weren't on the ball.
but I'm giving them another chance to see if this is all for sure. I'm hoping they will do better this session.
if the are having some story like a mystery of any sort again for the love of god hire guest writers, that know how to write mystery's and have them teach you.
And yeah it was Diggle that kinda sent Oliver down the path of "no killing" he should try fallow that example with this as well.
Use tranquilizer's and smart bullets that work the way Oliver's trick arrows do. Like what as shown when Vin diesel as XXX (<< in the same movie) I believe I stated this before about the rounds/ bullets in his(David Ramsey's ) thread minus the part with Vin Diesel and his movie part
And for crying out loud us a silencer and suppressor more for your fire arms . it's also what ruin felicity insane plan of escape lol Her plan was bad(poorly thought out) But he helped make sure it didn't with firing that gun/ pistol of his that night.
I like saying Diggle the smart one of them all. So the writers have to stop ruining that part. if he's smart let him be smart. Not add to the problems.