Ultimate home defence pistol?

First Taurus I dealt with was a .38 special revolver (unsure of exact model) something was throwing pieces of metal back into my face when I would drop the hammer. I was a teenager at the time so I didn’t investigate much. I also had a 92b (the 92fs knock off) I had tons of failure to feeds with multiple types of ammo. I was also took the 1911 in on trade and had failure to feeds and eject with that. I’ve handled other pistols of theirs and I have never been impressed. With Canik on the market there is no reason to buy a semi auto Taurus. I would honestly pick a hi-point over a Taurus at this point in time.

Let me get this straight, you had a FAILURE TO FEED ON A 38 REVOVER ??
If it was throwing stuff in ur face , it means the dam thing was wore out before u got it , and the cyl. wasn't being held in the right alignment with the barrel.
I have had 4 diff. 38`s and none of them did that.
My favorite carry is an alum. , 6 shot , that was built for bomber pilots back in ww2, lite weight , very accurate , fairly easy to hide , not much safer to carry than a revolver !
What do u guys think about the open carry thing now a lot of places have ??