| Dr. Ignatius Piazza's announcement a
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| | support it and volunteer as a Safety
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| little over three days ago that Front
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| | Monitor. There is no reason for our
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| Sight Firearms Training Facility would be
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| | children to continue to be victimized
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| offering free, comprehensive firearm
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| | when free, professional training is
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| training to designated School Safety
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| | available to stop school attacks."
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| Monitors from any and all schools across
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| | Retired law enforcement firearms
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| the nation caused not a small amount of
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| | instructor, Mike Waidelich from
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| stir. Not surprisingly, many teachers,
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| | Bakersfield, California strongly supports
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| administrators and parents were
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| | the Front Sight concept of arming and
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| frightened by this notion. Many
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| | training teachers.
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| conservative thinkers (that's small "c"
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| | "Nearly every tragedy on school grounds
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| conservative, not big "C" Conservative)
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| | in the entire 30 years of my law
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| are convinced that guns are evil; to them
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| | enforcement career could have been
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| the very thought of putting them into
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| | prevented or the damage done considerably
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| schools is anathema.
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| | limited, by the presence of an armed and
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| But knowledge is the key to this problem,
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| | trained individual."
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| for through knowledge comes
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| | In schools adopting Ignatius Piazza's
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| responsibility. With responsible gun
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| | program, teachers will be trained to
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| control in capable hands, school
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| | carry a concealed weapon, so potential
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| shootings, murders and atrocities will
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| | attackers will not know which teachers
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| come to a screeching halt. Dr. Ignatius
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| | are armed and which are not. As to the
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| Piazza, owner and founder of Front Sight
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| | effectiveness of concealed weapons
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| Firearms Training Facility, the largest
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| | preventing crime, Piazza references John
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| firearms training facility in America, is
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| | Lott, Jr., from the University of Chicago
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| willing and eager to do whatever it takes
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| | School of Law. Lott published Crime,
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| to prevent further horrors in America.
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| | Deterrence and Right-to-Carry Concealed
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| He is willing to train any designated
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| | Handguns in July 1996. Mr. Lott's
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| school staff members in responsible,
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| | research of cross-sectional time-series
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| effective use of firearms, to prevent
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| | data from all 3054 U.S. counties from
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| further atrocities on school grounds.
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| | 1977 to 1992 found that allowing citizens
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| Dave Clark, a graduate of Front Sight's
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| | to carry concealed weapons deterred
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| training routine and a recently retired
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| | violent crime and appeared to produce no
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| junior high school teacher of 25 years
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| | increase in accidental deaths. If those
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| had this to say about Front Sight's
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| | states which did not have right-to-carry
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| training program:
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| | concealed handgun provisions had adopted
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| "Front Sight provides safe and
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| | them in 1992, approximately 1,570
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| responsible training to a level that
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| | murders, 4,177 rapes, and over 60,000
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| exceeds law enforcement standards. Among
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| | aggravated assaults would have been
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| the many lessons taught, I learned
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| | avoided yearly.
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| universally accepted rules in justifiable
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| | With such evidence and support, can we as
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| use of deadly force. More importantly, I
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| | voters do anything but support both Dr.
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| learned when not to shoot and how to be
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| | Ignatius Piazza and our school districts
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| more mentally prepared to see a lethal
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| | in their decisions to send their Safety
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| confrontation coming before it happens in
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| | Monitors to his Front Sight institute to
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| order to avoid it. The firearms training
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| | be trained for free? What school can
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| is second to none and clearly gives the
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| | afford to not send their teachers to this
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| graduates the skill needed to save the
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| | free training? Speak to your district
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| lives of those in their charge if ever
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| | officials, contact your administrators,
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| attacked. If my school district chose to
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| | inform them of the necessity of arming
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| adopt a policy of sending selected
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| | your school's teachers - this is how we
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| teachers to Front Sight for concealed
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| | will handle America's epidemic of
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| handgun training, I would wholeheartedly
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| | atrocities.
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