So, there's your soon-to-be bride grappling with a madman, and you HAND her a .22 pistol? What a wuss! So, I guess you wouldn't mind explaining why you wouldn't give her the gun, as she wanted him to do? With this lady? No thanks. She's says "give me the gun", you give her the gun. Maybe you shoot the perp first though, depends on the exact cicumstances, and we weren't there.
The article implied that she was already in a tussle with the man, and her fiance HANDED her the gun! Surely that can't be an accurate account. She was lucky not to have been shot, though.