Who in their right mind would bring martial arts to a gunfight? It's too bad that she and multitudes like her have been programmed and conditioned by thought police. Never thinks outside the box, never deals with reality, or if she deals with reality, has a skewed sense of protection of self, almost as if looking at it afar, as it would never happen to her.
Why does every state in the union now have concealed carry licenses offered to the public? Answer; to keep from getting killed from insane people with guns, knives, bats, rakes, shovels, rocks, lawn mower blades, gasoline and matches, hands, feet, machetes, saws, nail guns, hammers, ice picks, arrows and bolts, molotov cocktails, steel toed boots, rope, belts, chainsaws, drills, explosives, chains, screwdrivers, and thousands more items used to kill/maim/torture.
Banning guns for the sake of reducing crime with guns doesn't help law-abiding citizens, or the incidence of murder, rape, home invasion, car jackings, armed robbery et al, because of one very important fact; criminals don't obey laws, and will find black market guns or whatever their "tool" of choice is to commit their crimes, or to commit suicide.
It's sad that kids find guns in the home and injure or kill themselves in the process. Squarely the parents' fault, but kids have been finding dangerous items and hurting/killing themselves on a regular basis; crossing the street, playground equipment, carnival rides, and hundreds of other items I won't list here. You cannot make the entire world safe, or cocoon kids and adults from harm and death.
Survival is at the top of my to do list. I'm going to be better armed than someone hell-bent on killing me or my family, and if that isn't enough, well, that's the way it is.
I sincerely hope your friend isn't victimized or murdered after being raped, or witnesses a felony in progress. I'm at a loss to figure-out her reasoning. We men and women have brains that are wired differently, so I'll leave it at that.
One final observation, and I don't mean this to be derogatory on any level, but I would never have a girlfriend, fiance, or wife whose logic and analytical skills are so crippled, and she would probably have no use for a boyfriend, fiance, or husband with my view of the real world, and how I deal with it.