I may be a bit crazy, but as a weapon light, I would just take a Haikelite MT09R or an Emisar D4.
Why? For the MT09R, I could just shine it in their face and burn their retinas off.
For both of them, I would get close and shine them at their face as closely as possible, to burn them to a crisp.
Would not be exactly legal though :smiling_imp:
Amusing how US vs non-US logic works. One side thinks regulating weapons and other potentially harm-inflicting apparatus will get the country to turn into a purge-like situation with too much regulation. The other side thinks the exact same thing will happen with too little regulation. In the meanwhile, violence isn’t correlated with gun regulation at all. Maybe specific types of events, but not violence statistics in general. The only correlation that actually sticks is more education and better paying starter positions equals less social risk situation and that equals less violence
OK, if this was about me disagreeing with guns in the USA this thread would already be shut down, but since it seems ok for USA (and other countries) members to have their say (and feeling sorry for us??), I will have my say too.
I don’t want guns, knives or anything like that being legal in the UK to carry on the streets or in the house and I’d appreciate our overseas members keeping their opinions to themselves in regards to what we can and can’t do in our country - as I do with guns etc. If you want a gun here for sports it is not a problem - so long as you don’t want to shoot 500 rounds per minute……and own 20 machine guns.
I sleep VERY safely at night with absolutely no need for either a gun or a knife, or a bat, and all that garbage that has been said about the guy defending himself is just crap, of course you can - but you don’t always have to kill someone to do it, though obviously on EXTREMELY rare occasions that may happen.
As it is if someone in the UK breaks into a property at night and gets disturbed they 90%+ of the time they will run away and no one gets hurt, they just want cash/quick sell goods - now put a gun in all their hands……. now I need to get a gun to defend my family, probably someone will end up dead. (I really DO understand that, if the robber almost certainly had a gun then of course I’d sleep easier with one too) but we don’t have that issue, and I never want it.
There are illegal guns/knives in the UK but gangs tend to shoot each other with them , not the general public, if they do our armed Police deal with it swiftly and efficiently - I’ll happily have it that way please.
Sorry that had to be said, and if it gets me banned so be it.
You have the ‘right’ to run away. We have the right to defend ourselves. It all makes sense now. Thanks for sharing! 
WOW talk about missing the point entirely……… we don’t need to run away, nor (for the most part) defend ourselves that is the point. I won’t say any more, mock all you want.
You just wrote:
What point did I miss?
We don’t (for the most part) have to defend ourselves either. But if we need to, we can.
Sadly the UK seems to be going down hill. Muslim rape gangs and people getting arrested for being offensive. It could be worse at least we aren’t France or Sweden. I’d prefer to be able to own a gun but I’ll have to settle for a maglite unless anyone can recommend a better flashlight that doesn’t have a head the size of the elephant man.
I think a typo hasn’t helped here David - I meant they run away, not me. Of course if you’d rather I shot them over a laptop or something well, we’ll have to disagree there.
We live in different worlds. I tried to stress that, but perhaps I failed, I’m sorry. I certainly would rather not get into an argument about it though. In fact I wish the subject never got raised, but I AM allowed to have my opinion on such things.
:+1: Wouldn’t want it any other way! Ever!
I think we can both agree that we can each have our own, vastly different opinions - at the same time - without one of us having to ‘change’ the other’s mind. Sorry if I came across as mocking. I’m not very good at being tactful or diplomatic. I’m pretty hard to offend, and I tend to expect the same from others.
David, honestly it is a pleasure to agree/disagree with you - everyone is different, as are the circumstances in their country. As I said if it were the same there as here, I’d probably feel the same, in fact I’d have to really. :+1: 
as it is here a bark from a big grumpy Rottweilers suffices… for now ! (to be fair they would more likely lick them to death, but don’t tell the burglars!!)
Rottweilers do tend to be protective, especially of children. My sister bought an adult Rottweiler from a friend of hers and kept her in the house. The Rottie had never shown any aggression in her life. But, one time when my sister’s husband tried to discipline their toddler daughter, the Rottie jumped up and barked at him and nearly bit him! They knew from then on that they never had to worry about anyone harming their daughter with the Rottie around! 
Indeed they do, we have had 3 now - the first was a diamond of a dog. She would circle the pram and us when we went out (wasn’t taught that), but 1 single word from me and she’d fall back to my heel and stay there no matter what until I told her different. The one we have now is a complete softy and she’d be anyone’s for a biscuit and a cuddle! that said she does have the best bark and growl out of all 3 (for scaring unwanted night visitors should it arise)
I have to apologise to the OP of course too, we have kinda derailed their thread……I feel ever so guilty about that. Sorry, really. :person_facepalming:
I want one just for the fun of it.
Many of us would try to buy a quality version just to keep in the house or garage for a conversation piece, many people own various knives, edged weapons and blunt or martial arts weapons that they can’t carry or use, but are cool to have.
OOOHH! Cool! I got Rude! points! I haven’t had those in a while! I guess we did break the rules a little with our “political” talk, huh? :person_facepalming:
Anyway, hope you guys find a light that meets your needs without getting you in trouble with the authorities…
I got a rock… :weary:
Where I live, the only thing that threatens my safety is irresponsible owners of large and dangerous dogs. I’m not saying that’s you, just saying that dog owners in general need to realize they pose a threat to completely innocent strangers, especially children. It’s like scattering land mines on the road in front of your house, or walking around with a gun pointed at every stranger.
IMO, pitbulls are the absolute worst, and the breed should be sterilized and eliminated in a generation. But, yes, I get that pitbull owners think they are adorable and the friendliest pets ever… until one day they snap.
BTW, 2 nights ago I actually made a dog stop… for a brief second, when it was barking at me and chasing me on my bike. I blasted it with a Astrolux C8 (about 100,000 candella). Big, ugly MF’er, but it looked shocked, then proceeded to give chase again. I’ve never had a light stop any dog before.
+1. I spent 6 months in south Africa with a guy who couldn’t understand the concept of not having 9ft fences topped with razor wire around your house. For the most part, the UK is fairly safe, this is why we don’t need guns. Hows that for a freedom?
I’m not trying to cause upset, just trying to explain to all the gun activists that we are mostly happy without guns.
Yep, a slightly hijacked thread. I’m a Texas Peace Officer, 25 years experience a little perspective maybe. Most American are law abiding wouldn’t hurt a fly kind of people. Then we have a few really evil and a few truly crazy. We get some shootings, some stabbings and other assaults from hammers to cars. Evil and/or crazy does tend to be rare not nearly as bad as the media over plays it. It does happen and I’ve got a jail nearby with plenty. We’ve got killers, rapist, child molester, drunk drivers, thieves. Some are animals some are still human and a few in between. I carry a Glock 19 off duty and a Glock 21 on duty, in all my years I never had to shoot anyone. Very few of my other officers have. We tend to get there after the fact, so I support the right of self defense. However if you are on the wrong side of the law, full weight of the law. Our jails are revolving doors for fucktards that keep coming back until they get killed or commit and get caught for a serious felony that puts them away for a long time. I see these people with page after page of charges, on parole or probation still getting arrested. I believe in total resistance, they have to fight hard for ever ill gotten good they want to take from me. So that being said I’m not taking chances that a house burglar only want a few item and won’t harm me or family. Our inner city schools are trashed and under funded. So instead of giving an education and hope our government gives points to college and hiring quotas.
I wish we could all live in a world where the government could take care of us all from cradle to grave. But what point would I go from free citizen to subject. Government health care could be denied to a child cause it wasn’t cost effective. Law could strip me of my right to self defense and arrest me for hurting a burglar. Some one could rent a car, van or truck to ram people down. I could be arrested for speech not approved of by committee or politically correct and called hate speech. I could be forced to buy kitchen silverware in a store with proper ID. I could be protected by secret courts. We’ve got Canadians buying American health issuance in case they run out of quota care limits.
So as a free citizen I accept the weight of that responsibility. I like my Constitution and it’s Amendments, except Amendment 16 and 18. It ain’t perfect but it’s a semi free country in most states.
P.S. Now lets see how many rude points, haven’t gotten any yet.
P.P.S. Most of those self defense lights are crap as flashlights an not so good as defensive tools.
P.P.P.S. I recommend having some training like jogging, judo and a good tactical awareness of your surroundings so you don’t have to break your flashlight.