{"id":379,"date":"2007-05-04T20:13:24","date_gmt":"2007-05-05T03:13:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ignatiuspiazzafrontsight.com\/2007\/05\/04\/379\/"},"modified":"2008-01-13T13:33:18","modified_gmt":"2008-01-13T20:33:18","slug":"379","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2007\/05\/04\/379\/","title":{"rendered":"fear and fascination of guns &#8211; how to overcome"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dr. Piazza,<\/p>\n<p>My girlfriend and I have been subscribing to your weekly gun training reports and tips and we&#8217;re convinced that we need to attend one of your Front Sight Courses. We&#8217;ve recently been introduced to firearms, buying two .22 rifles, joining a friend of ours from the local gunshop up at the range, and attending a Friends of the NRA sponsored and funded college student 1-day gun safety course.<\/p>\n<p>Having a slight fear and fascination with guns, I have always wanted to know how to responsibly use them (my family was from Kentucky but stopped shooting when we moved to California). This desire has been mine since I can remember, but with the recent shootings in America, particularly the one at a college, I want this training and confidence asap. If I&#8217;m ever in a situation like that and carrying, I want to have the skills and confidence that I can use the necessary force and prevent another event like the ones we&#8217;ve seen.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;d like to take your four day defensive handgun course.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for what you guys offer and I hope that we can attend!<\/p>\n<p>Devon<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dr. Piazza, My girlfriend and I have been subscribing to your weekly gun training reports and tips and we&#8217;re convinced that we need to attend one of your Front Sight Courses. We&#8217;ve recently been introduced to firearms, buying two .22 rifles, joining a friend of ours from the local gunshop up at the range, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[558,2872,1168,3431,222,89,336,204,1112,296,878,3117,4673,62,636,3190,579,26,2054,444,1308,4705,9,1674,111,2718,187,2592,219,4791,77,24,107,430,1917,232,42,1295,74,2652,31,4765,2473,75,4165,339,69,1460,833],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379"}],"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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/379\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}