[AAABEST]

I'm with you, which is why I'll probably get my wife something of the sorts. For some reason she just doesn't seem to get the mechanics of a semi-auto.

[Travis McGee]

Get her a five shot snubbie, she'll never regret it. Operation is intuitive: bullets go here, yep, it's loaded, I see them. Pull trigger, it goes bang. If she ever needs it it will be at contact to point blank range, so it's plenty accurate! And five bullets will be plenty too.