You answered your own question, respectfully. This is an old adage about self-defense firearm usage. Never point a firearm at someone in self-defense if you are not prepared - mentally, psychologically, technically - to pull the trigger. Otherwise the assailant will easily disarm you. Lita was not prepared in all three. Like all untrained, unprepared persons, Lita hoped to bluff her way by brandishing a gun. It was fairly simple for Maynard to grab the pistol from Lita and then stab the hapless girl with the letter opener. Also, it was obvious Lita had no self-defense training and preparation. Her own fear paralyzed her. But this should be no indictment of Lita. She would have been just like millions of other unfortunate victims of random violence, untrained, unprepared, and terrified. Not everyone is interested in learning hand-to-hand self-defense in our modern civilization because we trust so much to well-established law and order and competent, well-trained professional law enforcement.
Notice I wrote, 'hand-to-hand self-defense' versus, martial arts because not all martial arts necessarily train the practitioner in practical, everyday, self-defense, which is in reality, violent, hand-to-hand combat that is measured in seconds, not a mixed martial arts tournament.
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