Four years in east or south L.A. is like forty years in Germany. Stuff still happens, but it is a lot rarer. Tampa Bay was another place that was a real eye opener. In Tampa bay I'd sit out on the porch with a cold Beer on a warm summers night and listen to the gunfire echoing across the Bay, sounded like a war zone.

Around here in the 80's it was the Bader Meinhof setting off bombs. Then it was the reunification and East Germans which weren't the same as the tamer West Germans. Now it is the East Europeans, North Africans and Middle Easterners that prey on the Germans. The Germans are generally sheep, the predators occasionally mistake me for a sheep.

Back on subject, IMO and from experience, revolvers are more reliable than semi autos and easier to deal with when they do misfire. A little practice, a jacket pocket full of speed loaders and you can pump out some rounds if necessary.

I prefer a revolver for a few simple reasons. It is hard to find an auto with the punch of a magnum revolver. The longer sight radius makes long shots possible out to a hundred yards or so. I'm generally more accurate with a revolver.

Having said that, my go to pistol is a single stack 9 mm semi auto with two extra magazines. Just because it is handy and it has never misfired or stove piped on me (yet).