Front Sight Firearms Training Institute has, for years, supported the view that teachers all across the nation should be trained in responsible, effective use of firearms and armed to protect their students. The founder and director of Front Sight, Dr. Ignatius Piazza, has held multiple press conferences and written many press releases supporting the view that the only effective method America has for defending its schools students is to have teachers trained and armed. While this hasn't always been the most popular of views in the battle against school shootings, throughout the past several months, American views have been shifting radically and quickly, and more and more, Dr. Ignatius Piazza finds himself not arguing against the status quo, but for the popular opinion.
Dr. Ignatius Piazza is certainly a man to be respected in terms of firearms training: the gun training academy he founded and has been the director of since its inception is the nation's leading gun training school. Every year, Front Sight Firearms Training Institute trains more students than all other major shooting schools in the nation combined. Dr. Ignatius Piazza has never wasted his position at the head of the nation's largest authority on gun training, he has always taken a very active role in supporting and creating wise motions and ideas to help prevent gun atrocities not unlike the one America was forced to witness in Colorado, Virginia and countless other places.
One of the most controversial (at the time) motions he started was the motion to get teachers trained in defensive firearm use. Several years ago, Dr. Ignatius Piazza offered to train any three teachers from all school districts in America for free. Completely fed up with the number of school shootings and firearm horrors being committed in his fair nation, Dr. Ignatius Piazza decided to take things into his own hands. Now, more and more districts are taking him up on his offer, and more and more people are seeing the wisdom behind his view that schools must be defended actively, not passively
In fact, a recent survey was done by the National Institute of Justice found 74 percent of the felons agreed that, "One reason burglars avoid houses when people are home is that they fear being shot during the crime." The survey also asked these felons whether they had abandoned at least one crime because they feared the intended victim might be armed. Thirty-nine percent said they abandoned at least one crime; 8 percent had abandoned such a crime "many" times; 34 percent admitted being "scared off, shot at, wounded, or captured by an armed victim"; and nearly 70 percent knew a "colleague" who had abandoned a crime, been scared off, been shot at, wounded or captured by a victim packing heat.
The same absolutely applies to schools and school shooters. There have been dozens of recorded incidents whereby a school shooter and murderer was stopped at gunpoint by individuals who managed to get to their firearms stored elsewhere before the shooter could continue his murderous rampage. Dr. Ignatius Piazza points to these surveys and these events of prevention as prime examples that criminals will be stopped by trained, armed individuals.
Front Sight Firearms Training Institute wishes a horrible problem like school shootings could go away with the use of "Gun Free Zone" signs around schools, but it and Dr. Ignatius Piazza are too wise to know it will never happen. That's why they stand by their decision to train as many teachers as they possibly can in safe, effective gun use.
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