While essentially the poster just prior to me brings up very pertinent aspects of this answer, the most important factor Lucy had was the lack of time. Long before she arrived in France, she told the doctor portrayed by Morgan Freeman that she knew she was dying. She came very close to it on the plane, on her way over. She was a one-of-a-kind person in a one-of-a-kind situation, and as the film showed, she was controlling every single last heartbeat to be able to give her knowledge. She had no extra time to devote to gun-battles, and let's face it -- although they fired a mortar shell into the room, it did not destroy the interior of the room nor the scientists nor the computer she was inventing in order to pass her knowledge along to the whole of mankind.
Besides, after witnessing things like the possible military applications of what her powers could do, do you honestly feel like the "villains" would give up and walk away, and just completely forget about these possibilities that could have made them richer than "beyond mere dreams of avarice"? If you truly believe that, then it would suggest that part of you has no grasp of the reality of mankind, and the aims of the military/industrial complex, that would never let something like that chance get away. They would just lie to the public, and use the media to say 'it was a terrorist attack at the airport and university.' Yet in the end, by finishing her gift to science, Lucy was able to complete her gift to mankind, and many of the actions that may have had any possible military applications were vastly overshadowed by the worth of the overall gift.
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