I have a light on my bedside handgun, but not on my EDC.
No, there aren’t really any good reasons.No, it's not "monumentally stupid". Making such broad generalizations is, though.
There are very real and subjective advantages to having a weapon mounted light for some people and there are very real and subjective reasons why others don't need one or want one. What's really "retarded" is thinking a defensive gun is a "one setup fits all" discussion. It's not.
It gets dark every day though, and right here in Oklahoma. I personally exist every single night. I never intend to be in a gunfight moving forward, but I acknowledge that bad guys don't care about what I want or they'd leave me and mine alone, and I know that I am a big boy and stay out past dark sometimes, so there is a light on my gun. Additionally, I go in buildings.... all the time. If the power were to be cut or something similarly strange it could be dark. That light gives me options everywhere I go. And it costs me nothing to carry it. If you don't want one that is fine, don't carry one. But pretending there is no use for a light when the sun goes down every single day is a hilarious argument to make.The mission drives the gear.
If you're high speed low drag type looking for bad guys in the dark then of course you want a light. If you're the typical ccw guy whose main threat is the bad guy in the quikie mart parking lot a light is pretty low on the mission driven gear list.
At first I thought this discussion was about whether a WEAPON MOUNTED light or a HANDHELD light was preferred. I can agree with both sides of this in context.That light gives me options everywhere I go. And it costs me nothing to carry it. If you don't want one that is fine, don't carry one. But pretending there is no use for a light when the sun goes down every single day is a hilarious argument to make.
The orange lights in my local Walmart parking lot transition me from photopic to mesopic vision, which is to say they are insufficient for identifying a target.If you're high speed low drag type looking for bad guys in the dark then of course you want a light. If you're the typical ccw guy whose main threat is the bad guy in the quikie mart parking lot a light is pretty low on the mission driven gear list.
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