I have actually pointed guns with visible lasers at people, and the one that stands out the most to me was a big biker dude, after a foot pursuit, who could only comment on what a scared little pussy I must have been because I couldn't hold the dot still. You know, like in the movies. Your wobble zone gets much bigger when you just sprinted after a burglar, and the chemical cocktail gets fired up. No one else ever noticed the laser, they were more impressed by the cop that appeared to be ready correct their nutritional deficiency with a copper and lead supplement. @
Dagga Boy had an excellent thread on this board a few years back that I participated in that concerned this topic.
Come to think of it, my Taser has 2 lasers on it, one solid, and one flashing, and I don't recall too many people responding to the laser. Maybe I was too busy at the time to notice, but it seems to me it is a whole package kind of thing. Command Presence, Tactics, Voice Tones. Most people who are involved in an activity that would require tasing or shooting aren't going notice on their body a visual cue that they need knock it off. They tend to be altered (even if only on endogenous chemicals), fired up, pissed off and goal oriented. After carrying a laser on my duty pistol for over 16 years now, and one on my Taser for 12 years I solidly put the visible laser in the same basket as the sound of a shotgun being racked or an AR bolt dropping. Nice when it works. But when it works is definitely the outlier, so rare I cannot bring myself to try to use it.
I HAVE made a robbery suspect wet his pants with the sound of my AR bolt dropping. It was a happy coincidence. I don't try to use that to gain compliance either.
just my $.02, and worth exactly what you paid for it.
pat