{"id":613,"date":"2008-06-24T12:15:45","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T19:15:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2008\/06\/24\/response-to-yesterdays-post\/"},"modified":"2008-06-24T12:17:10","modified_gmt":"2008-06-24T19:17:10","slug":"response-to-yesterdays-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/2008\/06\/24\/response-to-yesterdays-post\/","title":{"rendered":"Response to Yesterday&#8217;s Post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font face=\"Times New Roman\" size=\"3\"><span style=\"font-size: 12pt\">Dr. Piazza,<\/p>\n<p>Congratulations for being <strong><\/strong><strong><font face=\"Times New Roman\">&#8220;<\/font><\/strong><\/span><\/font><strong><\/strong><strong><font face=\"Times New Roman\">R<\/font><\/strong><strong><\/strong><strong><font face=\"Times New Roman\">ight-On&#8221;<\/font><\/strong> again&#8230; I&#8217;m all for  <strong><\/strong><strong><em><font face=\"Times New Roman\"><span style=\"font-style: italic\">responsible and  educated<\/span><\/font><\/em><\/strong> citizens having CCW permits for the  protection of themselves and others.\u00a0While we all may tend to applaud this man&#8217;s  actions, things could have ended up very differently. Your analysis of what he  should have done was spot-on and should be drilled into every person carrying a  concealed weapon.<\/p>\n<p>The &#8220;Dirty Harry&#8221;\u00a0 mentality doesn&#8217;t work in the real  world, it&#8217;s only\u00a0works in the movies\u00a0where you can cut the action, retake the  shot\u00a0so the good guys win and no innocents get hurt. My one of my greatest fears  during my 20 years of law enforcement was accidentally\u00a0causing the injury or death  of an innocent.\u00a0 It\u00a0is a horrible burden to carry and typically a career  ending\u00a0event for law enforcement officers.<\/p>\n<p>Citizens need to realize that  they have much different responsibilities and legal\/civil protections when  intervening to stop a criminal activity. While they may have the best  intentions,\u00a0when things go badly, they\u00a0will find themselves trying to justify  their actions to\u00a0criminal\u00a0and\/or civil juries.<\/p>\n<p>Keep up the good  work&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Tom Butler<br \/>\nNapa S.O. Ret.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Piazza, Congratulations for being &#8220;Right-On&#8221; again&#8230; I&#8217;m all for responsible and educated citizens having CCW permits for the protection of themselves and others.\u00a0While we all may tend to applaud this man&#8217;s actions, things could have ended up very differently. Your analysis of what he should have done was spot-on and should be drilled into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,1],"tags":[1784,1509,60,206,894,509,211,665,124,4673,636,2054,581,569,2631,3694,3643,1018,2491,2874,568,1135,3817,1608,2435,232,290,142,4393,128,3803,4165,47,1386],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613"}],"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=613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ignatius-piazza-front-sight.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}