{"id":10780,"date":"2021-04-19T16:09:31","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T23:09:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/?p=10780"},"modified":"2021-02-24T16:10:47","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T23:10:47","slug":"front-sight-mailbag-be-situationally-aware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2021\/04\/19\/front-sight-mailbag-be-situationally-aware\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Sight Mailbag: Be Situationally Aware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dr. Piazza,<br \/>\nI recently attended a course to learn how to use a handgun.  The course helps bring one&#8217;s worst fears from the shadows of the mind to a reasoned, deliberate space.  The course emphasizes that the first defense is risk avoidance and risk mitigation.  Be situationally aware!  And be ready to defend yourself. I was impressed how many women and girls were at the course facility.  I spoke to several who all seemed relieved to be learning and to have overcome fears.  Many were already very skilled shooters.  Specifically, one young, female staff member I spoke to recalled how she had been quite terrified of firearms and overwhelmed at the prospect of handling them.  Now she has worked at Front Sight for 4 years!<br \/>\nJeff G<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dr. Piazza, I recently attended a course to learn how to use a handgun. The course helps bring one&#8217;s worst fears from the shadows of the mind to a reasoned, deliberate space. The course emphasizes that the first defense is risk avoidance and risk mitigation. Be situationally aware! And be ready to defend yourself. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10780"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10780"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10781,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10780\/revisions\/10781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}