So you re not into rifles anymore?
thats great and all, as usual with all martial arts it looks great in demos...but...
what if the person is twice bigger, heavier, stronger than you ? You avoid confrontation. What if the person is as heavy, or smaller, lighter, but quicker, more trained ? You avoid confrontation. What if he has a knive, gun? You avoid confrontation. We spend 99.9% of our lives AVOIDING confrontations. That's what keeps you alive, more than martial arts. Also most people who practize them start after they got owned/raped, so the damage is already done, it's merely a band aid on a wooden leg. Maybe you gain some fake confidence training in martial arts just like when lifting weights, but all in all at the end of the day if we calculate with our brains and eyes precisely that a threat is out of our league, then we flee.
Demos are just that, demos. And when these dudes fight for real it s in controlled environments. I bet you they avoid as much as anyone else a real life conflictual unfortunate situation.