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