Front Sight Firearms Training Institute has always been horrified and shocked by school shootings wracking our country, but not for just the same reasons that most Americans are shocked. Front Sight is the nation's leader in gun training, and it therefore follows suit that any violent incident involving firearms would be particularly anathema to Front Sight. Front Sight's mission to get firearms training into the hands of every American may sound far-fetched and impossible to most people, but to Ignatius Piazza, the founder and director of Front Sight, the mission is one that he will pursue for as long as school shootings occur and as long as people can't even go to church without worrying that they wouldn't be able to do anything about it if a psycho opened fire.



Front Sight Firearms Training Institute is the nation's largest gun training school. With tens of thousands of students and a ridiculously high return rate of students, Front Sight delivers firearms training to more students annually than all other major gun training schools in America combined. Ignatius Piazza, the founder and director of Front Sight, can be considered responsible for the astronomic growth and production of Front Sight. The gun training regimen and program that he implemented at Front Sight stemmed from his own extensive firearms training program. Upon completing his own, extremely rigorous gun training program, Ignatius Piazza founded Front Sight with the intention of delivering firearms training to as many Americans as he possibly could. With this noble endeavor in mind, one can understand why school shootings affect him so adversely.

For a man who devotes his life to getting gun training into the hands of those who can use it to safely and responsibly defend themselves and their loved ones, hearing of school shootings in which psychos open fire on students, teachers and staff with almost no reason is positively infuriating and heartbreaking. The consternation comes especially strong when one thinks upon how much good gun training in that environment could do. If the men and women of the schools which have been the target of the heinous crimes of school shootings could have received firearms training, they could have safeguarded the students and teachers (and themselves) who ended up being shot and often killed.

How much good could have been done had gun training been delivered to even four or five of the teachers at Columbine? How many deaths would have been averted if even three professors at Virginia Tech had received firearms training and had been armed? Gun training is specifically meant for enabling a person to stay calm and in-control in the event of a dangerous situation concerning firearms - precisely what a school shooting is. Just thinking about what good firearms training could have done in all the school shootings our fair nation has been exposed to hurts.

One can therefore understand why Ignatius Piazza and Front Sight demand that teachers across the nation receive gun training. Even offering firearms training from Front Sight for free to teachers across the nation, Front Sight and Ignatius Piazza can't stress enough how important it is that teachers receive gun training.