Agree with neither. I never understood night sights on a CCW weapon. You must identify your assailant as a mortal threat. I carry a quality LED flashlight and practice point shooting. 99.9% of SD engagements will be under 7 yards, you focus on the target, draw, point (NOT aim) and fire. You have 1.5 seconds. Devote the time to learn point shooting. Chasing a laser dot, or acquiring a 1mm glowing night sight is distracting and wastes time.
Do you practice drawing your flashlight when you draw your gun? If so you are a very small minority. There are things that contradict in your statement. If you can't shoot without identifying your targets how are you going to draw and shoot in 1.5 seconds.
There have been a lot of cop cam shootings in the dark. When they draw even if they have flashlight on their gun they don't turn it on. They don't draw a flashlight with the gun. They go to the gun because they are in danger and need a gun. How did they know they were in danger and needed a gun? There was enough visible light that they could see they were in danger. Which is generally the case. If there isn't enough light to do this, then you don't draw, you lose and the point about identifying the target is moot. If you don't live in the country there is generally a lot of light around: parking lot lights, vehicle light from traffic, house lights, street lights and the like.
What I think is if you have good situational awareness and sense the threat coming you bring the gun up and acquire the sights and use them.
If you are behind the situation you start taking short cuts and cut your presentation down and don't acquire your sights, you may shoot with only one hand, not a criticism, you do what you got to do. I don't think its a good idea to assume you will always be ahead or always behind.
I think point shooting, lasers, red dots, iron sights are only aiming systems. Aiming is probably the least important aspect of shooting a hand gun. I think you need to learn the fundamentals of shooting first and then worry about how you are going to aim.
I carried with a laser for several years. Probably well over 10,000 rounds shooting with one and as many just dry firing.
For me it was like this from the draw: When you draw with a laser your pretty much point shooting at first, then the laser dot is there tracking to the target it doesn't just suddenly appear, the laser is on as your gun comes up so its a moving red dot its something bright and moving your eyes naturally notice it, there is no searching or looking for it. But you are not focusing on it, your focusing on the target but your aware it is there. Your brain is processing it in the background. The gun stopped regardless of the laser, it stops because of hand and eye coordination which means the laser dot is probably within inches of where your eye thinks it will be and its not a surprise, its been moving there during the whole process of the draw and presentation. You then shoot or move the dot. The dot was more about confirmation than aiming. The same process essentially as the process of a flash sight picture.
