I like the idea of revolvers awfully well. They are easy to load, and unload. They are easy to see if they are loaded. There is no confusion as to whether a round is in the chamber. There is no safety to manipulate before firing.
While the 2 inch barreled J frame Smith and Wesson is not the easiest handgun in the world to shoot accurately at 25 yards, they are accurate at the 7 to 15 yardline and the 38 special chambering is adequate for self defense purposes.
Couldn't have said it better.
A new shooter has the simplest manual of arms to master. No safeties to remember in a moment of stress. The likelihood of a failure is vastly less than that of a semi-auto. No limp wrist or finicky ammo problems or other excuses for it to not function properly each time the trigger is pressed. And in the extremely rare event of a bad factory round misfiring, simply squeeze the trigger again. Aim and fire.
Simple and dependable.
