What he means is that it is entirely possible to blind somebody with a laser (note the little sticker on every laser that says as much). Also, in a real combat situation, a laser sight is generally only a liability. Any 'bad buy' can easily tell where you are by looking at your laser, just as if you had a flashlight on the end of your weapon.
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"Unless you are in very clean air, the bad guy gets to see a bright red arrow pointing straight at you. Even if the air is clean, after the first shot you are a walking "shoot-me" sign."
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See above. It seems to relatively common knowledge among the shooting community. Most shooters who have experimented with lasers (myself included) abandoned them as useless. If you want more information, try to google it.
'Professional' shooters generally use the best equipment available to them. If laser sights were the way to go, I am sure that is what they would use. The fact that they don't (or that they have policy prohibiting them) is evidence that they are not really usefull.
If by 'professional' you mean 'target' shooter, then of course they don't use lasers, red dot sights (where permitted) are far more accurate and are clearly visible in bright sunlight (where most shooting takes place). For events that don't allow anything other than iron sights, well, thems the rules.
I shot on several precision smallbore teams and I personally feel that a laser sight would have been useless to me (except possibly as a coaching tool for a coach to watch my gun movements). The sights we use are very good at centering a disc-shaped target. Even if you could see the little red dot, it would be almost impossible to tell if it was 'exactly' centered in the black.
It has been my personal experience (which is what you are interested in, right?) that people generally try to compensate for poor shooting skills with expensive gadgets like lasers which only further hurt their already bad habits. For a simple and direct example: If you are holding and shooting the gun properly, then how can you see the laser's read dot? Afterall, it would most likely be covered up by the sights. When you start to rely on a laser, you generally start to search for the read dot with your head up and your weapon low.
His second post was dead on. Tritium or Meprolight night sights are rapidly becoming standard equipment for low light conditions. Red dot sights are also used by many people who want the equivalent of a 'laser dot' on the target that can be seen when you look through the sight of the weapon.
Oh, and good luck asking the mods to delete this, they usually dont'. The most you can really hope for is for this thread to get shut down (no new posts). There are a lot of mods on TFP, and I am sure some of them have been keeping tabs of this thread as well.
I hope whatever you choose for your airsoft/real weapons works for you.