How old are your kids? Are any of them getting ready to go off to college? You’ve probably talked with them about school, good grades and not getting mixed in with the wrong crowd. But what are you doing actively as a parent to help protect them? Self defense training and gun training is a great option for teens that are about to leave for college. They will be on their own, away from you. They need to be able to protect themselves, because you will not be around to do it for them.

Are you a teen getting ready to move out? Have you received any gun training or any other form of self defense training? If not, why not?

Let me share with you a quick story about myself. Before I had ever even heard of the gun training school called Front Sight Firearms Training Institute or Dr. Ignatius Piazza, I was one of those people that figured I would never be attacked. Those things happen to other people… not me and not my friends. I knew that if I happened to be attacked, (which I wouldn’t be), my adrenaline would overcome me and I would be able to escape. Then when I was eighteen, one of my best male friends, if not the best male friend of mine at the time, took me on a walk to talk about the breakup I had just gone through. I trusted him, so I didn’t think about the fact that it was dark outside and there were no cars driving by. He took me to his old school ground. He was such a good friend of mine, showing me around his school, so I didn’t question walking down some stairs as he was telling me stories of his past. Once down the stairs I realized that we were completely hidden from the outside world. He pushed me against a wall and to the concrete ground and tried to have sex with me, despite the fact that I didn’t want to. Did my adrenaline kick in and take over? No. I shut down completely. I wasn’t prepared. Did I know how to defend myself and push him off? No. I had never taken a self defense course and he outweighed me by forty or fifty pounds. Luckily, he stopped for a moment too long and I was able to break free. But what if he hadn’t stopped? Most predators won’t.

Now that I have attended Front Sight, I feel more confident in myself and my ability to handle a threatening situation. This gun training school teaches true self defense. Ignatius Piazza (the founder and director of Front Sight) and his gun training instructors teach students how to not only handle threatening situations, but how to prevent attacks. Had I attended a gun training course at Front Sight before this attempted attack, I could have been more aware of what was going on, saw the signs in the environment and in him, and prevented anything from ever happening.

I believe that all teens, especially those teens about to be on their own, should attend a self defense gun training course from Ignatius Piazza at Front Sight. Don’t wait until after you have had my experience. Front Sight will help you prevent these attacks from even happening in the first place.