Check out the S&w MP45. Can be had w/ a thumb safety. Similar price to Glocks, maybe a little cheaper.
IMO for a bedside gun, get a revolver. Safe, practically foolproof, no controls to fiddle with. .357 but load w/ .38s in the house. Muzzle blast in the house could leave you permanently deaf w/ .357s.
I shall check them out, Vinnie...and thanks for the tip about the “blast” effect!
I went shooting with a buddy once, in a Texas rock pit. When we were about finished, he remembered his .357, and pulled it out. I had already put away my ear muff-type hearing protector (and the plugs I wear inside it), and didn't want to pull them out again just for a few rounds out of a revolver. Stuffed some cleaning patches in my ears (it worked when I was a kid shooting .22s, right?) and told him to have at it.
My ears rang for three months. I really thought it was permanent damage (and I thank God it wasn't). Don't go there, if you can avoid it.