Ignatius Piazza

Self Defense Training - Bullets Hurt, Learn What They Do and How They Work To Avoid Them

When a Spanish writer for the magazine El Mercurio visited Front Sight Firearms Training Institute, America's top-rated shooting school, and the world's first luxury residential community centered around firing ranges, he asked the founder and director Ignatius Piazza about then-recent assemblies regarding more gun control. The writer said, "I then ask him what he thinks of the walk, a week ago, by a large group of women in Washington, D.C., on Mother's day, to support more restrictions in the use of firearms. He tells me that these are well-intentioned people, but that they are wrong. 'In Washington is where there are the most restrictions for arms and it is at the same time the place with the highest crime rate. Removing arms is not the solution. The real solution is educating everyone to use them; that is how you avoid accidents and delinquency ends'."

Piazza's viewpoint: that gun training will lead to avoiding accidents, isn't a tough one to grasp, but legislators don't take it into account as they work closer and closer to removing guns from citizens altogether. Self defense training is precisely what gun training is, especially handgun training from Front Sight. Why wouldn't someone accept that the better trained they are with guns, the less they need to fear them? Why can't mothers instead walk for greater firearms training in America? America needs self defense training, not restrictions on the Second Amendment.

Even a Spaniard got this. He was quite impressed with Front Sight's education, having only good things to say about the instructors and instruction: "It is worth mentioning that the three class instructors are real professionals. They know what they do and know how to teach. They do believe they are saving your life with all of this training." Europe has many more gun control laws than we do, if a European sees the sense of self defense training in the form of gun training, Americans (and mothers) should too.