Ignatius Piazza

Rifle Training Keeps Not Only Hunters Safe

The N.R.A. has, for years, supported safe, responsible, effective rifle training. Seeing as they are the National Rifle Association, it makes sense that they would be so in favor of rifle training, their very existence depends upon people not dying at the hands of these potentially lethal weapons. But what the populace doesn't hear about is how terrified the N.R.A. is of advocating rifle training outside of hunting and hunters. Your average gun enthusiast will tell you that gun rights and gun training are not meant for hunters alone, they are meant for everyone, for any reason they can conceive of. Front Sight Firearms Training Institute, America's largest gun training school, advocates this idea as well.

Dr. Ignatius Piazza, the founder and director of Front Sight is quick to reference the Second Amendment of the Constitution of the United States of America as his reason for expecting all Americans to receive firearms training, even rifle training. According to him (and countless Constitutional Law professors and lawyers), the Second Amendment of the Constitution does not exist to protect the rights of hunters, the Second Amendment exists to protect the nation, in the event that a militia need to be formed.

Dr. Piazza does not support armed militia groups or advocate armed rebellion - of course not, truly no one in their right mind does. But he does support the average American getting effective, responsible firearms training, and that's restricted to handgun training, that includes rifle training, shotgun training, even submachine gun training. Dr. Piazza's opinion is that gun training is self defense training, and the more that one gets, the safer one is. That includes the nation, and not only as far as a trained militia goes, but also the fact that the more citizens who are trained in firearms training, the less violent crime there will be.