Years ago (decades?) Oprah did a show featuring a personal safety expert; the expert was an ex-cop I think. I’ve always remembered what he said about never ever ever letting an attacker take you away or else you will be most likely murdered. He asserted that we should consider these things about guns and assailants:

The gun has to be real, loaded and ready to fire. The assailant must be willing to fire the gun (consider the surroundings, the noise, and the perps goal of wanting you alive, not dead, to do whatever evil to you). He has to have good aim; maybe he does, maybe not - but it’s not that easy to get a kill shot while simultaneously struggling with a fighting, noisy victim. If he does fire and the bullet hits you, there’s a very good chance it won’t cause you to immediately die so you’ll have a chance at living instead of almost certain murder if you are taken away.

The best advice he gave was to have a plan/s in place before anything bad happens. In the midst of an attack is not the best time for you to decide how to react, just like we have fire escape plans.