Front Sight Firearms Training Institute is, unfortunately, an anomaly in our modern American culture: Front Sight expects, encourages and creates responsibility. "Responsibility" in America today might as well be a four-letter word with the way that most people avoid it and run from the very possibility of it. But Front Sight and Dr. Ignatius Piazza certainly don't do any such thing. It probably makes sense to most laymen that a shooting school would have to instill responsibility to its students, considering they're dealing with a subject that ends lives and is very easily lethal.



But Front Sight considers responsibility more than just a passing fad or a small part of training: Front Sight and Dr. Ignatius Piazza, its founder and director, make responsibility the determining factor of every sequence its students go through. Starting with the background check that every student must go through before even coming to the Las Vegas, Nevada training grounds, and extending through the super-professional training the former police, military and shooting expert trainers deliver, there is never any doubt that Front Sight students are fully responsible for the weapons they train in.

And there is a number of possibilities for any student. Handgun training is very obvious, Front Sight offers defensive handgun training, concealed carry training and supplemental day-course handgun training. Shotgun training is another popular Front Sight option. With several courses of varying length, any user can become a shotgun expert. Rifle training is, of course, also available. With former military and law enforcement officers in Front Sight's cadre of trainers, one can be sure that the rifle training at Front Sight is immaculate and ideal. Even submachine gun training is available at Front Sight. While some may wonder why submachine gun training would be necessary for civilians, the answer is as simple as saying "The Second Amendment".

But it is interesting that some men and women in this free nation of ours do ask why, specifically, submachine gun training is considered necessary. But truly what they're asking is why or if gun training is necessary. They're saying, in their nansy-pansy way, that they think the world would be a nicer, softer place if no one got gun training, and no one ever had to worry about loud, nasty guns.

Unfortunately for these men and women, the fact is that in a representative democracy (by the way, for those of you have received the average American political science education, that's the kind of government we Americans have) the right to firearms is not only protected, it's absolutely necessary for the democracy to stay alive.

The fact is that the right to owning firearms is not going to change. Yes, a few laws get passed that make it seem like groups whose names often sound like 'Defending Us More By Arguing Stricter Suppression' (D.U.M.B.A.S.S.) are winning the battle against common sense, but worry not gun users: gun rights are intrinsically a part of our Constitution, and they'll never be taken away.

What those D.U.M.B.A.S.S.es have to ask themselves is, "Which is more dangerous?" Law abiding citizens owning guns and getting trained to use them safely and effectively against criminals who carry guns regardless of the laws or unarmed and untrained citizens preyed upon by armed criminals? The answer is pretty obvious.