What I think I'm hearing here is just leave your flashlight in your pocket and be "a good little victim"and take one to the hip.
No. Be able to verbalize why you think light-in-the-face is an appropriate response. If it fits into an escalation of force model that you can explain and reasonably validate, its much better than, "I gots a light an' a gun, an I was gettin' it on!"
