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Long, long ago, I think at around age nine or something, I was taking a Tae Kwon Do class.
At one point the master said to me, "Attack me."
I gave him a skeptical look.
He said, "Attack me the way you would attack me in real life."
I raised my finger and thumb, pointed it at him, and said "Bang."
He laughed and called up the next student.
I think that might be a bad choice for close combat. I heard knifes are superior for short ranges...
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(I guess that explains why he laughed at you...a lot to learn about close combat.)
I’m by no means an expert, but I’d expect the situation be quite lower from the attacking perspective. A gun might not be a very useful defense against a surprise knife attack, but for a surprise attack I think a gun would do quite well, even against someone holding a knife.
Note that in Eliezer’s story the question was how a 9 year old might attack a martial arts instructor, not how he would defend from him.