Front Sight, U.S. Supreme Court, Colorado Springs: The Most Important Second Amendment Players Right Now

Front Sight Firearms Training Institute may not have been what the Founding Fathers saw when they framed the Constitution, but they certainly would respect Front Sight and its attempts at safeguarding the Second Amendment. The Founders probably did foresee a case much like the one that the U.S. Supreme Court is considering now. In fact, the Founders most likely wanted a case like the one the U.S. Supreme Court is considering to be brought up. We can further extrapolate what the Founders could have envisaged and say that they most likely did not foresee murderous maniacs entering churches and attempting to kill innocent churchgoers. While that's precisely what occurred in Colorado Springs, the Founders probably would have been proud of what happened in Colorado Springs: a private citizen shot and killed the attacker, thanks solely to her having received firearms training and being armed.

In Colorado Springs, there was a shooting. A murderer entered the Colorado Springs New Life church and opened fire in the parking lot. If a parishioner of the church, who had volunteered as a security guard because she had received gun training and was licensed to carry a firearm, had not taken steps to take down the shooter, the awful murder of two could have become a massacre of dozens. The firearms training Jeanne Assam received enabled her to protect her fellow Colorado Springs parishioners, and had it not been for her, there would have been a dreadful massacre. For this reason and many more, Front Sight, the leader in America's gun training, applauds Jeanne Assam. Her use of her firearms training was precisely what every gun training student is trained for.

The U.S. Supreme Court recently accepted for consideration a case concerning the constitutionality of a handgun ban in the District of Columbia. Most of America realizes that preventing a citizen from possessing a firearm is absolutely unconstitutional. The Second Amendment to the Constitution clearly states that the right for citizens to bear arms shall not be infringed, and yet the District of Columbia drastically infringed upon the rights of its citizens to bear arms.

When the U.S. Supreme Court announced its acceptance of the case, Front Sight pointed out the obvious: a handgun ban is unconstitutional. But now that the Colorado Springs shooting has gotten attention, and more shootings which have ended in a similar way as the Colorado Springs shooting are too, Front Sight is pointing to what unfortunately seems to be less obvious to most of America: a handgun ban is ridiculous.

Front Sight points out that restricting a person from owning a firearm effectively prevents them from getting gun training, and the hero of Colorado Springs could never have saved the lives she did if she hadn't received the gun training she had. Firearms training and gun ownership are a necessary part of American life, and Front Sight is demanding that the U.S. Supreme Court realize the commonsense facts that firearms are not dangerous, that firearms training makes them tools, and without them America is doomed.