{"id":1647,"date":"2009-06-19T08:21:08","date_gmt":"2009-06-19T15:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/?p=1647"},"modified":"2009-06-19T09:31:48","modified_gmt":"2009-06-19T16:31:48","slug":"ignatius-piazza-the-price-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2009\/06\/19\/ignatius-piazza-the-price-of-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignatius Piazza: The Price of Freedom&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are always obstacles we must overcome in our efforts to positively change the image of gun ownership through training hundreds of thousands of responsible Americans at Front Sight.<\/p>\n<p>I push through the challenges because I believe, as our Founding Fathers did, that a gun in a citizen\u2019s trained hands is truly the tool to preserve our freedom for generations to come.<\/p>\n<p>Even so, there are times when I wonder if the 20-hour days and all our efforts to restore the Second Amendment is truly worth the price\u2014 and if the rest of America really cares at all.<\/p>\n<p>Well, here is a video that reaffirmed to me all that is good about America and that any effort to help protect our freedom, no matter how challenging or difficult, is always worth the price.<\/p>\n<p>I was humbled by this video and the hero it honors. I\u2019m not ashamed to tell you that I shed a tear when watching it. I think you will too&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><object classid=\"clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" codebase=\"http:\/\/download.macromedia.com\/pub\/shockwave\/cabs\/flash\/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/AYGJ5h6YgmE\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"480\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/AYGJ5h6YgmE\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\nThis video, by <a href=\"http:\/\/steve-davis.org\/blog\/\">Rep. Steve Davis<\/a>, is of Staff Sgt. John Beale\u2019s arrival home. (Turn up your speakers)<\/p>\n<p>See you on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Ignatius Piazza<br \/>\nFounder and Director<br \/>\nFront Sight Firearms Training Institute<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.frontsight.com\/free-gun.asp\">https:\/\/www.frontsight.com\/free-gun.asp<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are always obstacles we must overcome in our efforts to positively change the image of gun ownership through training hundreds of thousands of responsible Americans at Front Sight. I push through the challenges because I believe, as our Founding Fathers did, that a gun in a citizen\u2019s trained hands is truly the tool to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2,1,5,8,23],"tags":[166,549,9,10,554,550,4790,553,552,551],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647"}],"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\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1647"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1650,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1647\/revisions\/1650"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1647"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1647"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1647"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}