Front Sight's Call is Joined: Media Had Better Start Reporting Responsible Gun Users

Front Sight Firearms Training is the nation's largest firearms training school. Every year, Front Sight delivers gun training to more students than all other major shooting schools in the nation combined. America has recently turned its eyes to Front Sight and its founder and director, Ignatius Piazza, as they say 'Enough!' to the media today and their lack of any mention of the fact that gun training and firearms training amongst private citizens has saved countless lives in the last ten years.

Go to a news-search website and type in 'Colorado Springs Shooting'. Now open up the three links that seem most interesting to you. Make sure they're all from different news sources and different reporters. Which of those articles mentions the heroic, life-saving, miraculous actions of the thoroughly gun trained Jeanne Assam? Which doesn't? Odds are, none mention that Jeanne Assam, a regular churchgoer of New Life, who received gun training, was the private citizen who shot dead the murderer who opened fire in the church's parking lot.

America and Front Sight demand to know why the media is not reporting this heroic citizen from Colorado Springs. But it's not only the New Life churchgoer Jeanne Assam who isn't being recognized, it's others throughout the nation. All over the nation, private citizens are receiving gun training and then effectively safeguarding and protecting their loved ones with that firearms training. But does the media advertise it? No!

When he mentioned a shooting which occurred at Appalachian Law School, Larry Elder, in his article Do "Gun Free" Zones Encourage School Shootings?, said, "Professor and economist John Lott checked 280 separate news stories in the week after the Appalachian Law School shooting, and only found four that mentioned the students who stopped the shooter had guns. The Washington Post, for example, said the students "helped subdue" the killer. Newsday wrote the shooter was "restrained by students." The Richmond (Va.) Times-Dispatch, however, wrote that the shooter "was wrestled to the ground by fellow students, one of whom aimed his own revolver at [the killer]." Four months later, the Times-Dispatch detailed the students' actions, including the second student's use of a gun."

The students who stopped the shooter - who had already killed the dean, a professor and shot four students, killing one - had received adequate firearms training to subdue a killer. And what did they do when they needed to utilize that gun training? They stopped a murder from becoming a massacre. Gun training saved dozens, maybe hundreds of lives that day, and yet the media didn't mention it! The media didn't find it fitting to mention that firearms training of private citizens protected and safeguarded scores of students. Why?

For the thousands of examples of cops stopping murderers, there are probably dozens of examples of private citizens stopping murders before they happen, and yet the American public never hears of it. Why is the media not telling America that gun training is keeping them safe? Why is the mass media not informing Americans of the good that firearms training has done them? Why is it not possible for someone who wants the facts of private citizens receiving gun training and then safeguarding innocent strangers to be easily available?

Why indeed? Front Sight is asking. Ignatius Piazza is asking. America is asking.