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This question has been flogged to death here. In fact - the horse is hamburger. Use the search button. BTW - pistols are as personal as your girlfriend's underwear. Nobody (with any experience) will ever tell you what to get. Your price range is a significant constraint. That said you should probably research the Springfield XD9 or XDm. Don't buy anything until you've had an opportunity to shoot a representative sample. Most local shooting ranges have rental firearms. Money spent educating yourself up front is money saved in the long run.
(FWIW - I recommended the 9mm because ammo's cheap and it's easy to learn with. There is a selection of quality bullets [search button] that make it an effective defensive round too.)
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A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero (42B.C)
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