And that's as it should be. But, you should be able to do the same thing without viewing down the iron sights. The issue is a self defense "mental" thing where your eye is trying to do two things at once, that it shouldn't - target view with the iron sight and find and place the red dot. Can be done, but takes time to chase that dang dot AND align the sights. If using a laser you want to tag and shoot from any position in one motion...so to speak. Don't add in the task of aiming. Oh, and this isn't my idea, it comes from several self defense gurus I've watched and read.