If he wasn’t a martial arts expert he would have been killed. Guns level the playing field for those of us not world class fighters.
That is certainly true.
When I worked for civil service, we had a national champion Karate Instructor give us some very basic self defense training.
One question we asked him was what if the guy has a gun. He told us the best thing would be to just do whatever he told you to. If you knew he was going to try and kill you, then he said he would at least attempt something.
True, but when warned that the "victim" was an ex-military Gurkha, the "assailant" should have immediately apologized and run like hell. They have a well deserved reputation of being some of the deadliest fighters in history.
Mark