{"id":11337,"date":"2022-03-12T10:28:30","date_gmt":"2022-03-12T17:28:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/?p=11337"},"modified":"2022-02-16T10:29:21","modified_gmt":"2022-02-16T17:29:21","slug":"front-sight-mailbag-what-we-always-tell-our-friends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2022\/03\/12\/front-sight-mailbag-what-we-always-tell-our-friends\/","title":{"rendered":"Front Sight Mailbag: What We Always Tell our Friends&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Dear Dr. Piazza,<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif;\"><span style=\"color: #26282a;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">What we always tell friends \u201cYou NEED to take the Front Sight classes; especially the handgun course.\u00a0 \u00a0You will learn about safety, liability, and have a structured learning environment to shoot safely and shoot well.\u00a0 It won&#8217;t be easy; and you&#8217;ll be drinking from a firehose&#8221;.\u00a0 I have been muzzled more in the past year than in all my prior years of my life.\u00a0 Often, this happens with friends that have purchased a handgun, and may be new to guns.\u00a0 They are pretty sure their handgun is unloaded when pointing the muzzle right at my torso.\u00a0 \u00a0I now lecture them ahead of time that I don&#8217;t want to see their new gun, or I&#8217;ll come in to look at it once it is placed safely on a table distant from me with the muzzle pointing in a safe direction.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Calibri, serif;\"><span style=\"color: #26282a;\"><span style=\"font-size: large;\">Greg S<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dr. Piazza, What we always tell friends \u201cYou NEED to take the Front Sight classes; especially the handgun course.\u00a0 \u00a0You will learn about safety, liability, and have a structured learning environment to shoot safely and shoot well.\u00a0 It won&#8217;t be easy; and you&#8217;ll be drinking from a firehose&#8221;.\u00a0 I have been muzzled more in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1,41],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11337"}],"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=11337"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11338,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11337\/revisions\/11338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}