FWD from Front Sight Owner Dr.
Piazza
For Immediate Release: Monday,
December 17, 2012
Dear Benjamin,
Please Forward to Your Local Newspapers, Radio
Stations, and Television News Stations, Congress Reps, and School
Districts.
Back in 1999 I gave our nation the solution to
stop innocent children from being slaughtered.
Every year since then, I have given the nation the
solution. Isn't it time our nation allows Front Sight to provide the solution,
free of charge?
I'm angered that more children have to die when I
have the solution for every school in America and I am willing to pay for
it.
Subject: Gun School For Teachers
Las Vegas, Nevada: In the wake of the yet another
senseless school massacre, I ask all our politicians, law enforcement officials,
and school administrators one simply question:
WHEN ARE WE GOING TO WAKE UP AS A NATION AND
PROTECT OUR CHILDREN?
How many more children have to die before we will
find the testicular fortitude, as a nation, to put in place REAL policies that
will stop a deranged gunman in his tracks, before he can commit mass murder on
innocent and defenseless children?
How many times do I have to offer the nation THE
solution?
What the hell is wrong with the leaders of our
country? Find a pair, and make the RIGHT decision to protect our children, not
more of the wrong decisions that create the opportunity for the next lunatic to
murder at will with zero resistance!
Once again, Front Sight Firearms Training
Institute, arguably the world leader in providing intensified courses in the
defensive use of firearms for private citizens, has the answer to stopping
further attacks on school children. Front Sight will once again offer free
firearms training to any school administrator, teachers, or full time staff
members designated as school Safety Monitors.
Front Sight will accept for training up to three
staff members from each school, college or university.
Applicants must submit a letter requesting
training on school letterhead signed by the top school district official and
designating the applicant as the school's Safety Monitor.
Please forward this e-mail to your state and
federal legislators, local law enforcement departments and your child's school
administrator, as well as your friends and family, asking them to do the same.
Guns and Teachers
As Front Sight's Founder and Director, I
understand my offer to train armed school teachers may offend some school
administrators and parents who do not see arming and training selected school
staff members as a positive solution to violent attacks. However, historically,
my approach has worked while gun control has actually increased violent crime by
shifting the balance of power to favor the criminals and lunatics.
My offer is not a new idea. In the early 70's,
Israel was faced with much greater problems of armed terrorist attacks on
schools. The cry for more gun control was heard then too, but Israel very
carefully analyzed all possible options before adopting the proactive position
of arming and training their teachers. School shootings stopped and terrorists
looked for easier targets. Gun control never has and never will stop criminals
and madmen from carrying out acts of gun violence.
Here is the reason why there are no school shooting in Israel. Wake up America!
In our country, every time a misguided individual
on psychiatric drugs goes on a killing spree, anti self-defense legislators,
watch the polls and exploit the dead victims in order to fool the public into
accepting more gun control. It is time our country finds some resolve and the
will to tackle the real problem, which is rooting out the actual influences in
the lives people hat predispose them to commit atrocities. The problem is not
guns. Guns don't cause these incidents to occur any more than cameras cause
child pornography or automobiles cause traffic fatalities.
Israel had the right answer. Society is safer when
we train and arm our law abiding citizens. As the defensive training leader in
the USA, Front Sight is willing and able to set the example for the rest of the
country to follow.
Armed Teachers
Dave Clark, who recently retired after teaching
for the last 25 years at Junction Junior High School in Livermore, California
agrees with Front Sight's philosophy. In fact, Mr. Clark has previously attended
a Four Day Defensive Handgun course at Front Sight at his own expense and found
the course to be exactly what is needed to train fellow teachers to stop an
attack similar to Columbine school and Virginia Tech. "Front Sight provides safe
and responsible training to a level that exceeds law enforcement standards."
Says Mr. Clark. "Among the many lessons taught, I learned universally accepted
rules in justifiable use of deadly force. More importantly, I learned when not
to shoot and how to be more mentally prepared to see a lethal confrontation
coming before it happens in order to avoid it. The firearms training is second
to none and clearly gives the graduates the skill needed to save the lives of
those in their charge if ever attacked. If my school district chose to adopt a
policy of sending selected teachers to Front Sight for concealed handgun
training, I would wholeheartedly support it and volunteer as a Safety Monitor.
There is no reason for our children to continue to be victimized when free,
professional training is available to stop school attacks."
Guns in Schools
There is evidence that a gun in the hand of a
teacher will stop an armed attacker. The vice-principal of a school in Pearl,
Mississippi used his handgun to stop and detain an armed killer until the police
arrived. It seems obvious that armed and trained staff members inside the school
are in a better position to identify the attackers and do something immediately
to resolve the situation. It is much harder for police, who arrive on the scene
too late to stop the killing.
Lawmakers With Blood on Their Hands
An obstacle to training and arming teachers is the
current law in many states prohibiting the possession of firearms on school
grounds even when the possessor is qualified and has a concealed weapons
license.
Understand that those laws did not prevent or stop
the gun violence at numerous schools over the last ten years. The brazen attacks
in school after school during the last decade indicate criminals have concluded
that 'Gun-Free-School-Zone' actually means 'Government Certified, Helpless and
Unarmed Victim Zone.'
Schools Can't Afford to Pass on No Cost Security
Most school districts cannot afford to have even
one full time police officer in every school, but they can easily afford to
train three or more of their selected staff members to a higher level of
firearms training than offered in police academies because Front Sight will
provide the training at no cost.
Retired law enforcement firearms instructor, Mike
Waidelich from Bakersfield, California strongly supports the Front Sight concept
of arming and training teachers. "Nearly every tragedy on or off school grounds
in the entire 30 years of my law enforcement career could have been prevented or
the damage done considerably limited, by the presence of an armed and trained
individual."
Concealed Guns
The training provided in Front Sight's basic
training classes easily exceeds the training provided in most police basic
training academies.
Front Sight proved it on their nationally
televised reality series Front Sight Challenge. 80 Seasoned law enforcement
officers from around the country went head-to-head in tests of marksmanship,
speed and tactics against 80 private citizens-- including teachers-- who had not
received any training other than Front Sight's firearms courses. Remarkably, the
Front Sight trained, private citizens won over half of every contest.
Teachers will be trained to carry a concealed
weapon, so potential attackers will not know which teachers are armed and which
are not. In states that have adopted concealed weapon laws for private citizens,
violent crime has dropped. School attacks will drop as well once it is known
that any of the teachers and staff members on school grounds have the ability
and training to stop a violent attack immediately.
There is also scientific research that supports
Front Sight's stance on concealed weapon training from John Lott, Jr. at
University of Chicago School of Law who published Crime, Deterrence and
Right-to-Carry Concealed Handguns in July 1996. Mr. Lott's research of
cross-sectional time-series data from all 3054 U.S. counties from 1977 to 1992
found that allowing citizens to carry concealed weapons deters violent crime and
appears to produce no increase in accidental deaths. If those states which did
not have right-to-carry concealed handgun provisions had adopted them in 1992,
approximately 1,570 murders, 4,177 rapes, and over 60,000 aggravated assaults
would have been avoided yearly.
Gun Control Increases Violent Crime
How many times must we experience another
Littleton, Colorado or Virginia Tech or Newtown Connecticut massacre before we
wake up, study the research and adopt policies which actually reduce crime and
begin saving our children instead of leaving them helpless victims when the next
psych drug user snaps?
Gun control increases violent crime yet some
politicians continue to tout disarming law abiding citizens as a solution. Front
Sight has a better solution.
Arm and train school teachers to carry a concealed
weapon. And post a DIFFERENT sign outside of ever school!
Look for the RIGHT sign all over America. They are
in front of the homes of armed and trained Front Sight students. If you were a
deranged murderer, which house would you invade? One with an armed and trained
occupant with a Front Sight sign or one who had a "Gun Free Zone" sign in his
yard? The answer is simply to any rational person.
WHY ARE SCHOOLS ANY DIFFERENT?
Don't have a sign? Get one here: http://www.readytodefend.com/
It is time WE WAKE UP and start providing REAL
protection for our children in schools. Front Sight stands ready, willing and
able to train every teacher in America if that is what it takes! Help us protect
your children by demanding YOUR school send their teachers to Front Sight!
Sincerely,
Dr. Ignatius Piazza
Founder and Director
Front Sight Firearms Training Institute
7975 Cameron Drive, #900
Windsor, CA 95492
http://www.frontsight.com
info@frontsight.com
1.800.987.7719
Founder and Director
Front Sight Firearms Training Institute
7975 Cameron Drive, #900
Windsor, CA 95492
http://www.frontsight.com
info@frontsight.com
1.800.987.7719
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