{"id":2912,"date":"2010-01-18T10:23:27","date_gmt":"2010-01-18T17:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/?p=2912"},"modified":"2010-05-08T21:58:48","modified_gmt":"2010-05-09T04:58:48","slug":"ignatius-piazza-stop-screaming-start-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2010\/01\/18\/ignatius-piazza-stop-screaming-start-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignatius Piazza: Stop Screaming, Start Shooting…"},"content":{"rendered":"

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**UPDATE 2\/10\/2010**<\/h3>\n

It seems a very vocal minority of law enforcement types have taken offense to my blog post below.<\/p>\n

I say a very vocal minority because for every 100 or so positive responses I have received from law enforcement officers around the country, thanking me for this post, I have received a nasty e-mail from someone in law enforcement demanding that I remove the post and immediately apologize for exploiting the death of a fallen officer for Front Sight’s profit.<\/p>\n

Well, here is my response to those who were offended and have bullied their way on to chat rooms and forums to raise an outrage where there is none.<\/p>\n

#1. I’m not the one who created, produced or edited the video in question.<\/p>\n

#2. I’m not the one who released it to public domain by placing it on You Tube and other video sharing sites.<\/p>\n

#3. I did not even search it out. It has been sent to me numerous times over the years by my law enforcement and private citizen students asking me to share it with other students as a teaching tool of what not to do in a lethal encounter.<\/p>\n

#4. Nowhere in the video or this blog do I identify any individual officer or department, nor do I give any back story or epilogue that would identify or harm the image of the individuals or department involved. Ironically, only those who are demanding that I remove this video are guilty of identifying the officer, his family and his department in their inflammatory demands and outrageous accusations. <\/strong><\/p>\n

#5. The title, “Stop Screaming, Start Shooting” refers to the repeated screaming of commands by the officer when he clearly should have stopped screaming commands and started shooting. The title does not refer to his screams that followed during the gun fight.<\/p>\n

#6. The demand by those law enforcement types that I immediately remove this blog and apologize for exploiting the death of an officer for profit, smacks of censorship and double standard. There are hundreds of violent crimes caught on video and 911 audios on the Internet from “for profit” sites (including law enforcement sites) where private citizens are injured or killed due to their lack of good judgment, tactics, and marksmanship, yet you do not see these same law enforcement types demanding that those videos be removed.<\/p>\n

#7. As far as being a private, “for profit” training organization, which for some odd reason also seems to offend the vocal minority, may I state that a police officer or any employee of a government agency or even a non-profit organization who ACCEPTS A PAYCHECK is working “for profit.”<\/p>\n

#8. Am I sorry for the officer involved? Absolutely. I am sorry this officer did not receive the proper training and field supervision he needed to have the mindset, tactics and marksmanship skills to win a lethal encounter. Had he received proper training in mindset, tactics and marksmanship, he would be alive today. THAT <\/strong>is the reason and the ONLY <\/strong>reason why this blog was posted and why Front Sight provides special training offers attached to the blogs.<\/p>\n

#9. Front Sight has a 14 year history of providing private citizens and law enforcement alike with a level of training that exceeds law enforcement and military standards without any boot camp mentality or drill instructors attitudes. To date, hundreds of thousands <\/strong>of people, private citizens and law enforcement alike have benefited from our training. Our post-course surveys prove 99.5% of our students love us and we welcome them back with our special offers and lifetime memberships<\/strong>. The other one half of 1 percent NOBODY can make happy as they look for the negative in anything positive and disrupt everyone else. We encourage the vocal minority to look for their training elsewhere.<\/p>\n

#10. See the video blog post below that had more forwards and bookmarks than any blog we have ever posted. Because Front Sight’s purpose is to positively change the image of gun ownership by providing responsible citizens and law enforcement alike with a level of training that exceeds law enforcement and military standards, also see the special offer below the video to provide a lifetime of training for citizens and law enforcements officers alike. Training to protect you and your family so you will never become a victim due to lack of the proper mindset, tactics, or marksmanship skills.<\/p>\n

<\/a>Here is the original blog post that prompted the vocal minority to try to create an inflammatory situation where this was none…<\/p>\n

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Every now and then I see a video that wakes me up to how badly law enforcement (and private citizens alike) truly need what Front Sight offers. I have a tendency to forget that the superior mindset, gun handling, and marksmanship we instill in hundreds of Front Sight students who attend our courses every weekend, is so far ahead of what is being taught across the country. I only see the stellar results we create with hundreds of students from all walks of life, every weekend we run our courses It takes a video like the one I am sharing with you this week to wake me up! This was a tough video for me to watch because I see this officer personally suffer as a direct result of mistakes he made, that could have easily been avoided had he been provided with the proper mindset, gun handling, and marksmanship we routinely provide to every student who attends our courses. Seeing a video like this tells me we have much work ahead of us in training America. Please watch this video to see exactly what NOT to do, then see my comments, as well as what I have created to prevent this from ever happening to you.<\/p>\n

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