Hold a cocked weapon on me.
I will bet I can stick you four out of five times from five feet away. Most probably I can deflect your handgun five out of five times.
Five feet from your nose tip to mine. Sixty inches. You have your hands four feet from me, one foot in front of your lower chest. From the front of my shoulder to my finger tip is 27 inches. Assuming you have a four inch barrel. All I have to do is move one hand 17 inches and I can deflect the barrel. 18 inches more with the other hand and you have a one inch puncture wound. Three inches more and your heart will be wondering why it is losing pressure when it is pumping so hard.
Remember, the whole time I am going to be smiling at you, never giving you any indication that I am about to kill you! If you can't retreat to at least 12 feet with a drawn weapon YOUR life insurance agent is going to be losing YOUR business.
There's a number to keep in my head. Now I have to make sure I know what it looks like under stress.
The target coming straight at me was less than 12 feet away before I finally started hitting it center mass. And by the time I was hitting my target, most of the clip was used up.
And yes, I'd wager on that one.