Everything has pro's and con's. I use traditional and red dot sights. The red dots are faster generally speaking. However, the glass and laser are prone to problems in rugged environments. The glass does fog in certain weather conditions, and the glass can get covered in rain/snow making it almost useless. Additionally the laser emitter can easily be covered by mud, dust, snow, rendering the red dot completely useless. For a CCW weapon in controlled environments, or competition pistol in same, I think they are great. For outdoors, backcountry, survival, hunting side arm, I'm not sold (yet).
