Ignatius Piazza Extends Scholarship Offer to Survivors of Virginia Tech Shootings
Sunday, 07.01.2007, 02:27pm (GMT)
Ignatius Piazza is the founder and director of a large firearms
training resort in the Nevada desert. The Front Sight Firearms Training
Institute is a roughly 45 minute drive from the Las Vegas strip. Dr.
Ignatius Piazza, a former chiropractor who opened the institute in
1996, asserts that he has trained tens of thousands of people to
correctly operate firearms. The institute offers training courses in
handguns, rifles, shotguns, rifles and submachine guns. The institute
also offers training in martial arts and other forms of self-defense.
Dr. Ignatius Piazza is himself a certified combat master in four
different firearms, making him more than qualified to offer training
courses. Dr. Ignatius Piazza is also the creator of a reality show
airing on Versus (VS) network entitled “Front Sight Challenge”. Piazza
hired a producer and director himself and sold the completed product to
Versus network after three months of filming. The show places 40 law
enforcement officers in competition against 40 citizens aged 15 to 65.
The competitions on the show are designed to test the contestant’s
skills with a variety of firearms, including handguns, rifles, shotguns
and submachine guns.
When students in Dr. Liviu Lebrescu’s class walked into his classroom
on that fateful April 16th, it is doubtful that they were expecting
their professor to sacrifice his life in order to preserve theirs.
However, that is how the unfortunate series of events unfolded in that
classroom that day. When the shooting attack reached his classroom, 76
year old Liviu Librescu, a Holocaust survivor and Israeli engineering
and math lecturer at Virginia Tech, blocked the doorway with his body
and commanded his students to flee. Professor Librescu's heroic actions
allowed his students to escape through open windows saving their lives
at the expense of his own.
Dr. Ignatius Piazza is offering, to those students that survived
because of the sacrifice of their professor, a Front Sight Firearms
Training Institute "Legacy" Lifetime Membership so they may receive
world-class self defense firearms training. A Front Sight Firearms
Training Institute "Legacy" Lifetime Membership is valued at $8,900 and
will be awarded to each student Professor Librescu saved in his
classroom by willingly giving his life for theirs. The benefits of the
Legacy Membership include a lifetime of training in Empty Hand Defense,
Edged Weapons, and Front Sight's most popular Defensive Handgun,
Tactical Shotgun, and Practical Rifle courses. Each Front Sight Legacy
Membership also includes four certificates that members can provide to
family and friends to attend their first course at Front Sight.
Dr. Ignatius Piazza explains why he is willing to offer tens of
thousands of dollars worth of training to these students, when he says
that, “"Professor Librescu's actions under fire are inspiring. He gave
his life to save his students. I want the Librescu family to know that
such valor does not go unrecognized or unrewarded. Front Sight will now
look after Professor Librescu's students by providing them with a
lifetime of training that far exceeds law enforcement and military
standards without any boot camp mentality or drill instructor
attitudes. With Front Sight's training, Professor Librescu may rest in
peace, knowing his students will have the mindset and ability to
protect themselves, their loved ones, and their peers for the rest of
their lives. They will never have to run in fear again. His legacy as a
professor and protector will live on with each of his students."
So to those survivors, Ignatius Piazza and Front Sight Firearms
Training Institute offer the chance at self-defense training, and a
chance to honor the sacrifice of their professor. If you are one of the
survivors, please contact Ignatius Piazza via their website.
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