Ignatius Piazza

Despite What You've Heard, Firearms Training is a Must

Now that Front Sight Firearms Training Institute, America's first and only residential community based around firing ranges, a SWAT-tactics training tower and a 12,000 square foot martial arts gymnasium, is established, lived-in and has been operating for several years, the critics are finally shutting up. While there has never been any hue or cry from the nearby towns, gun control enthusiasts from all over America had been frightened by the idea of a gun town. Many of them ended up giving up and saying, "At least they're all in one place", but really, if any of them took Front Sight's firearms training, they'd understand just what sort of a place Front Sight is.

The writer for a Spanish magazine, El Mercurio, who attended a Front Sight course has a fairly good grasp of what has been going on with gun control in America lately: "Pressure comes from everywhere. While supporters have walks, like the one on Mother's Day (which had Hilary Clinton's participation), the fire arms supporters ask to leave things the way they are and refer to the Second Amendment of the United States Constitution, where the right to own arms is granted to the population."

He then goes on to nail on the head why gun training is so vital: "The subject of firearms in the United States is not a minor one. Each year, approximately 30,000 people die from armed violence incidents in this country and, according to a survey by The Washington Post, one out of four Americans has been threatened once with a firearm."

And yet Americans still fight guns and advocate gun control. Why would, if so many people die from armed violence every year, people think that fewer guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens is the answer? The fewer guns in the hands of law-abiding citizens, and the less gun training gun-owning citizens have, the more murders and armed violence we will see.