{"id":212,"date":"2006-08-21T10:46:16","date_gmt":"2006-08-21T17:46:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ignatiuspiazzafrontsight.com\/essay-contest-finalists\/essayeleven\/"},"modified":"2006-08-21T10:46:16","modified_gmt":"2006-08-21T17:46:16","slug":"essayeleven","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/essay-contest-finalists\/essayeleven\/","title":{"rendered":"What the Second Amendment Means to Me"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>by Rebecca Stickley<\/p>\n<p>What the Second Amendment means to me is the freedom to own a gun, to be able to shoot a gun, and to be able to defend myself. It is too bad that owning a gun and being trained to use a gun is looked down upon. If it wasn&#8217;t, the crime rate would go down drastically.<br \/>\n<img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left\" id=\"image194\" alt=\"Rebecca, Age 12\" src=\"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/rebeccastickley.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I believe that citizens should have full and easy access to firearms in order to protect themselves. Training should also be widely available for all citizens &#8211; young and old &#8211; to ensure the safe use of firearms. Together this will lead to less gun related injuries and deaths.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t understand why the government is being small minded and making it harder for private citizens to own a gun, because criminals aren&#8217;t going to wait, get the permit and do all the proper paper work required. They are just going to get a gun off the black market.<br \/>\nThus law abiding citizens are put at a disadvantage once again.<\/p>\n<p>To me a Front Sight training course means that I would get the proper training to defend my self in a dangerous situation. It would probably help me with aim too. (Which I need a lot!)<br \/>\nWhen I see a handgun I think that it is a means of defending myself. That, in general just makes me feel a lot safer.<\/p>\n<p>My Dad and brother have both had fantastic training at Front Sight.  I am looking forward to my first opportunity!<br \/>\nRebecca Stickley<br \/>\nAge 12<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Rebecca Stickley What the Second Amendment means to me is the freedom to own a gun, to be able to shoot a gun, and to be able to defend myself. It is too bad that owning a gun and being trained to use a gun is looked down upon. If it wasn&#8217;t, the crime [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"parent":201,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/212"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/212\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/201"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}