It’s really good to be able to shoot a firearm, but thousands if not millions of people can do so better than I can.

it’s wonderful to be fit and toned and capable of using your body like a weapon, but that ship has long since sailed for me. I’m plenty strong, but I never was coordinated and I’m no longer fast.

You wouldn’t bring a knife to a gunfight, (If you’re not James Coburn)

and you wouldn’t go to a gunfight against a better trained or better practiced or better equipped opponent. If you think you would, I recommend you go play paintball against some experienced players and come back with your clothes soaked in humility.

No, you would poison a gunfighter. You would shoot a poisoner, probably. You would lay a trap for an expert swordsman or knifefighter. Anyone can become moderately adept at anything, given a bit of time, and the whole point is to let the opponent (Who is very good at their chosen discipline) be out of their element. No, there is no zen master who cannot be taken by surprise. The most cautious and suspicious people I know have taken things I have given them into their homes and thanked me, without truly knowing of the items I gave to them were safe; I have proven this to myself thousands of times.(Well, probably hundreds. But at least a thousand) This is how you win against superior skills, superior numbers, superior brains. No, you don’t even have to be that smart. Just pay attention.