Jimmy LOL, allow me to provide my scared old-dude/wimp response to your sage advice. I don't trust myself enough to correctly handle a semi-auto in a tense armed encounter. My self-trust is higher with a revolver. I have been involved in two real-world civilian armed encounters, once where my weapon was a revolver. No shots were fired by me but did learn first hand the mind-changing deterrent power of a cocked revolver.