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