| It is Front Sight Firearms Training | | | | place. Gunmen who shoot down their own peers |
| Facility's current mission to instruct | | | | and classmates are not going to consider the |
| teachers across the nation in concealed | | | | legal ramifications of owning a gun in |
| weapon use for free. Front Sight's founder | | | | addition to multiple homicide! |
| and owner, Dr. Ignatius Piazza, intends to | | | | |
| get trained concealed weapons experts into | | | | Laws do not prevent horrors like Virginia |
| all of America's schools and thus prevent | | | | Tech and Columbine. What those students did |
| further disasters like Virginia Tech or | | | | was illegal - and making their actions more |
| Columbine. The response to this has been | | | | illegal wouldn't have stopped them. |
| remarkably supportive. | | | | Legislating guns away from law-abiding |
| | | | citizens is backwards and insane. What's |
| "I can't imagine anyone being opposed to the | | | | needed is training for those law-abiding |
| idea of putting concealed weapons experts | | | | citizens. |
| into schools - what else would scare off | | | | |
| these gunmen? Certainly not laws against them | | | | John Lott, Jr. from the University of Chicago |
| owning guns!" - R.H. | | | | School of Law published Crime, Deterrence and |
| | | | Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns in July |
| "How many times must we experience another | | | | 1996. Lott's research of cross-sectional |
| Littleton, Colorado or Virginia Tech before | | | | time-series data from all 3054 U.S. counties |
| we wake up, study the research and adopt | | | | from 1977 to 1992 found that allowing |
| policies which actually reduce crime and | | | | citizens to carry concealed weapons deterred |
| begin saving our children instead of leaving | | | | violent crime and showed no increase in |
| them helpless victims when the next | | | | accidental deaths. If those states which did |
| psychiatric drug user snaps?" - I.P. | | | | not have right-to-carry concealed handgun |
| | | | provisions had adopted them in 1992, |
| "First off, Front Sight is incredible, I | | | | approximately 1,570 murders, 4,177 rapes, and |
| would trust the competence of anyone coming | | | | over 60,000 aggravated assaults would have |
| out of that school with my life! Second, | | | | been avoided yearly. |
| what a great idea for Piazza to give free | | | | |
| training to school teachers. It's one thing | | | | As if in direct, illogical opposition to this |
| to care about school shootings - it's another | | | | empirical data, laws exist in most states |
| thing altogether to offer, for free, the best | | | | which prohibit the possession of firearms on |
| firearm training in the nation in order to | | | | school grounds even when the possessor is |
| make sure that they stop altogether." - A.S. | | | | qualified and has a concealed weapons |
| | | | license. Dr. Piazza quickly points out that |
| The meager opposition to Piazza's idea will | | | | those laws did not prevent or stop the gun |
| come from those who think that guns are what | | | | violence at numerous schools over the last |
| cause murders, multiple homicides and | | | | tens years. He states, "The brazen attacks in |
| murder-suicides. For whatever reason, | | | | school after school during the last decade |
| legislators are convinced that preventing | | | | indicate criminals have concluded that |
| law-abiding citizens from carrying firearms | | | | 'Gun-Free-School-Zone' actually means |
| will prevent terrors like those witnessed at | | | | 'Government Certified, Helpless and Unarmed |
| Columbine and Virginia Tech. | | | | Victim Zone." |
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| Not so! The answer lies in Front Sight and | | | | So take a stand against these illogical laws |
| concealed weapons training for our teachers. | | | | - support Dr. Ignatius Piazza and Front Sight |
| What could be more intimidating to a | | | | Firearms Training Facility. Tell your school |
| potential gunman than knowledge that any | | | | administrators that you expect their Safety |
| attempt to draw a firearm on a classroom or | | | | Monitors to be sent to Front Sight for their |
| schoolroom would result in immediate failure? | | | | free concealed weapons training. Front Sight |
| Many legislators would argue that more laws | | | | and Dr. Piazza want America's schools safe - |
| against gun ownership are the keys to our | | | | so much so that he is willing to train School |
| problems. But, when discussing gun control, | | | | Safety Monitors for free - what objection |
| the unfortunate fact is that legislation only | | | | could anyone raise to taking advantage of |
| affects those who follow laws in the first | | | | this opportunity? |