Ignatius Piazza Extends Scholarship Offer to Survivors of Virginia Tech Shootings

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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