‘The point of having a gun is to avoid physical contact with your enemy. ‘
LOL. There is a little difference between golf and a real life. You can’t carry a tool for every situation all the time, and your possible opponent isn’t static as well, so it is not up to you only on would you avoid physical contact or not.
Handgun is still one of the most effective tools to hurt someone, regardless the fact are you in physical contact or not.
I think there is one major rule of close quarters shooting: muzzle awareness. You should be careful to keep your body parts out of the way between your handgun and a bad guy no matter what.
You aren't static either and, generally, you do have a say in the dynamics of the confrontation. It's called making your opponent fight your fight and not fighting his fight.
I'm not saying that training for the worst case scenario isn't advisable. I'm just saying that one should consider training to avoid the worst case scenario as being more valuable. We fight as we train and we train as we fight. We should consider that as we train to engage in hand-to-hand combat.
I don't want to engage someone in hand-to-hand combat. I'm too old for that Shiite.