Excellent read: you were forced to utilize both sides of an equation and then you took it to task. Disruption is overlooked by so many fighters who think past that distance and then the possibility. It is a mental attribute.
If someones a faster draw you can move in and hold their gun arm down or like you say smother them ,bump them, what ever it takes to disrupt them so their power or their second move is diffused by their own adjustment.