And since you are a beginner in a dangerous area you definitely don’t want a gun with safeties that can really fuck you up in emergencies. Its very easy to forget if you have a switch up.

This is poor advice IMO. If you train with any gun of choice, whether it has a safety or not is irrelevant to self-defense. If you are UNtrained with the gun, though, the gun not having a safety makes it a much greater liability to you at all times.

If you are a beginner, you are at the most likely point in your time with a firearm to have an ND while drawing. Also, the gun is as much a risk to you as it is to your assailant (and everyone around you) if you’re untrained with it. Training with a safety directly provides the muscle memory to disengage said safety, so it doesn’t hinder you when you need.

This argument that “you might forget” something you do every time you raise the gun up during training makes as much sense to me as forgetting your pants at home. Just always practice the gun draw with the safety on, and you will have the safety disengaged before you have sights acquired like clockwork. Ride the slide.