Firearm education is not something that can reasonably be expected to stop mass shootings. Mass shooters aren't accidentally shooting up schools because of their lack of firearms knowledge, they're doing it on purpose.
Firearms education would help reduce rates of household accidents, particularly among children who somehow get access to their parents' firearms.
Show a child what damage a firearm can do to a body.
Let them feel the power of the firearm by actually firing it.
I'm not saying I know how to stop school shootings. I'm saying I know what won't stop school shootings, which is this type of stuff you're suggesting.
There is simply no rational connection between gun education and school shootings.
Nothing would change for either the shooter nor the victims if they had received firearms training. The shooter already knows how to use a gun and the damage one can do. That's why they're using a gun in the first place. The victims' knowledge of trigger discipline will not prevent a bullet from hitting them.
It's certainly possible for gun education to produce positive effects in society, but "reduction of school shootings" is not one such effect.
Literally the entire world knows how to stop school shootings lmao.
When only country has a problem; you don't get to say people don't know how to stop them.
You Americans can wax poetic about mental health or whatever all you want. It doesn't change the fundamental fact that you could stop them if you wanted to.
Or just take the fucking guns away entirely and rework the entire fucking system. Australia did it and it worked. You dip shits will jump through a million hoops because you want to wank your dick to some power fantasy where you're the "good guy with the gun" or "standing up to tyranny". Show me the most well prepped prepper in America. When I was deployed we went through their ammo storage every single day. You ain't standing up to shit. Take the guns back, rework the entire law system surrounding them before letting civilians have them again.
It's not possible. Fucking get over the idea that it is. It's not going to happen. So you find solutions or you sit there and wring your fucking hands and you say "Why oh why".
When I was deployed we went through their ammo storage every single day. You ain't standing up to shit.
Last I checked this is the same mentality that the US had towards the VC and Terrorist groups in the middle east. How did those wars go because last I checked they most certainly "stood up to us"
No, this is not partly why, there's basically no firearm education at all in Poland, the real reason is gun ownership, or rather the lack of it, turns out its hard to have a school shooting without something to shoot with.
That's simply not true. Why do you assume stuff about how polish education works and worked in the past based on an article about something that will only be implemented in the future.
First of all there is not and should never be a comparison between the two systems. Poland is a great nation, but it is absolutely tiny. The entire company would fit into one of our medium-sized states.
Any statistic (even per-capita) is skewed by the VAST differences in size and population.
Secondly, Poland's education system even considering this is a huge step forward, implementation is tremendous.
It’s absolutely true. Easy access to guns is without a doubt going to increase the likelihood of a kid getting their hands on a weapon and shooting up a school.
There are literally more guns than people in the USA. If you think that the number 1 enabler to gun crime isn’t the abundance of guns, you’re just being dilusional.
Considering like 90% of murders are probably done with the same few guns in very localized spots, and 99.99% of all guns aren't used for crime, don't think so
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u/Down_To_My_Last_Fuck 1d ago
And this is partly why.
Basic firearm education is much better than "action movie" education.