Most people use aimed fire with semi-autos. The spray and pray mantra is constantly used by people trying to discredit the utility of higher capacity firearms or by people trying to justify lower capacity firearms, or both.
You're going to get far more than intermediate rifle cartridge recoil from a DG rifle. You aren't going to get intermediate rifle cartridge energy, nor terminal ballistics from a pistol caliber carbine. More frontal area does not equal better stops. Better penetration to allow hitting the vitals is what causes stops. The old DG guys used large caliber rifles with hard cast bullets because the low velocities of black powder necessitated using heavier bullets that had the momentum to penetrate. That all changed with the French invention of smokeless powder and the German addition of the spire pointed FMJ bullet. The higher velocities achievable with smokeless powder and the penetration capability of jacketed pointed bullets forever changed rifles. As H&H Hunter's signature line reads: "Bell, who? He did what with a .275 Rigby?".
That completely omits and ignores the fact that it's the intermediate cartridge carbine and not the pistol that has largely replaced the shotgun for defensive use.
I have a close friend who's a retired USAF CMSgt, and he spent much of his career as a PJ. He later moved onto military and civilian hospital administration as his rank increased and his ability to keep up with the young bucks decreased. He never could shake going to see his medics down in the trauma facilities and look after them though. His personal and professional opinion is that pistol rounds are highly survivable. He said buckshot wounds are minimally operable and minimally survivable because of the multiple criss-crossing wound tracks. He said wounds from expanding rifle ammunition (JSP, JHP, ballistic tip) and rounds like M193 ball that tumble and fragment were equally inoperable and equally unlikely to be survived. Those wounds shred flesh from fragmentation and tearing flesh from stretching it beyond its elastic limits (AKA hydrostatic wounding mechanism of high velocity rifle rounds).
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I'm not planning to go to any gun fights. If a gunfight comes to me my first choice is going to be to get away from it. If I can't get away from it, I'll almost certainly be shooting back with the pistol I have on me. If it comes to my home I'll grab the long gun I shoot best.