Handgun Training Probably Scare Students Into Working Harder, Too
As if Dr. Ignatius Piazza hasn’t had enough revolutionary ideas, he’s moving on to another one. In case you don’t know the name, Dr. Ignatius Piazza is the founder and director of Front Sight Firearms Training Institute. Front Sight is the world’s first world-class, luxury residential community based around firearms training. A 550-acre gated community, the denizens of which are all be gun enthusiasts. And as if this completely unique, revolutionary idea isn’t enough to keep one former chiropractor going, he’s decided that he has the solution to school shootings: giving teachers handgun training and arming them.
Piazza’s desire is to make America safer. As explained in the Sierra Times, his approach to giving teachers all across America concealed carry training is not unprecedented; it has worked very successfully in Israel. That’s not all, however. In his interview with the Sierra Times, Piazza explains that scientific research also supports Front Sight's stance on concealed weapon training. He references researcher, John Lott, Jr. from the 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.”
Not much can be said against an argument like that. Piazza is clearly fed up with America’s anti-gun, pro gun control stance, and is willing to do anything to get America on the right track. Handgun training for teachers is the solution to school shootings, according to Dr. Piazza. Firearms training is just like any other training, it makes the user more capable, more aware and more responsible with that given subject. Giving teachers handgun training and then arming them will make our schools safe, it’s the solution.
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