Hopefully it was a psyop and not an actual retired personnel who asked why didn't civilians without any combat training start their Hero arc.
Because all it would happen is you'd get shot by the second or third guy.
No it's actually worse than that.
Please go through the sequence of events.
Men with guns show up. Ask the men to stand apart from their wife and kids. Ask religion.
Hindu.
Shoot the man.
Then state explicitly that we are not going to harm women and children. Some perverse morality. State it loud enough for all to hear.
Now the men have 2 choices.
Either comply and die silent, with a large probability of survival of your wife and kids.
Or show herogiri and wrestle with the terrorists, causing the terrorists to shoot your wife and kids in front of you before they shoot you.
And the larger is the no of men they shoot, leaving the women and children alone, the greater is the incentive for the rest of men to choose option 1.
So, all you bachelor dreams of Rambogiri, shove them up your bunghole. Because it's easy for you to say when it's just your life. This is a choice that puts even their wife and children's lives at risk, and that's a whole other equation to solve.
For all of you saying they would do this and that, I have no shame in saying that I would have done the same thing all of these men did.
They chose to die without fighting in the hope of keeping their wife and kids safe. Every single one of these men already knew they were dead when the first shot was fired.
They just chose the life of their family over their pride.
Which is the hardest choice to make for a man.
If I have to face a choice like that, I hope I choose the same. I just hope the Gods give me the strength to die without begging and with the name of Narayana on my lips.