{"id":456,"date":"2007-11-03T13:32:44","date_gmt":"2007-11-03T20:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ignatiuspiazzafrontsight.com\/2007\/11\/03\/keep-punching-holes-in-paper\/"},"modified":"2007-11-03T13:43:27","modified_gmt":"2007-11-03T20:43:27","slug":"keep-punching-holes-in-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2007\/11\/03\/keep-punching-holes-in-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Keep Punching Holes in Paper&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dr. Piazza,<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m nearly 70 and really enjoy reading your reports and news letters.\u00a0 I have an extensive background with firearms, having had one since I was 11.\u00a0 I was a Small Arms Technician for nearly a 1\/3 of my 30+ years in the Air Force.\u00a0 During my second career in the California Dept. of Corrections, I was a Range Master and Armorer.\u00a0 I retired for the second time 5 years ago when I was the Armory Sergeant at the Corrections Academy.\u00a0 I enjoy shooting and am somewhat a collector of old military rifles.\u00a0 I have three 03s and one Garand, all of which I shoot.\u00a0 You can probably tell that I&#8217;m a pretty good customer of the Civilian Marksmanship Program.<\/p>\n<p>I really like what you&#8217;re doing and your overall philosophy concerning shooting instruction and reeducation of the Anti-gun leaders.\u00a0 Please keep on going!\u00a0 We need organizations like yours and the NRA to safeguard our 2nd Amendment rights.\u00a0 In the meantime, I&#8217;ll keep punching holes in paper and I do carry concealed since I&#8217;m a retired Peace Officer.\u00a0 Again, keep up the good work.<\/p>\n<p>Sincerely,<\/p>\n<p>Ed<\/p>\n<p>Chief Master Sergeant, USAF, Retired<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dear Dr. Piazza, I&#8217;m nearly 70 and really enjoy reading your reports and news letters.\u00a0 I have an extensive background with firearms, having had one since I was 11.\u00a0 I was a Small Arms Technician for nearly a 1\/3 of my 30+ years in the Air Force.\u00a0 During my second career in the California Dept. [&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":[97,813,1562,2877,2672,2872,2690,222,1509,665,447,3466,3190,579,26,2054,581,2631,187,3183,987,1520,2896,397,3419,2168,1917,1415,1658,465,232,3350,2302,3446,3418,42,1295,3803,1511,2763,2652,31,4137,1619,3333,1386],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456"}],"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=456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}