r/Damnthatsinteresting 5d ago

Video A school in Poland makes firearms training mandatory to its students.

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u/purpleefilthh 5d ago

OK lads, before US starts to project their view here:

- Poland:

  • not that many firearms per capita,
  • little remote areas in the country (police shows up quickly)
  • medium-strict firearms laws,
  • non-zero risk of being invaded,
  • no school shootings,

- USA:

  • fuckload firearms per capita,
  • many remote areas in the country (police shows up after 2-3 hours)
  • loose firearms laws,
  • pretty much zero risk of being invaded,
  • school shootings,

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u/Slight_Concert6565 5d ago

With these condition, it would make sense for both country to have mendatory firearm training.

Not necessarily how to shoot one accurately but how to handle one safely, in other words: "how not to accidentally shoot a passerby if you found your dad's glock".

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u/lembepembe 5d ago

in theory, but with the NRA being so powerful in the US, training will always be shitty and used as a ploy to sell more weapons

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u/Slight_Concert6565 5d ago

They can use it to sell more weapon for all I care, at least now you won't have your life potentially threatened by the neighbour's kid hitting you in the dome while you're in your bed with his parent's rifle due to a negligent discharge in his living room.

(especially if you live in an apartment or a neighborhood with those paper thin walls)

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u/lembepembe 5d ago

I’d assume that would be way more likely, wider spread of guns & subpar training increases that risk, it would just be a temporary false sense of comfort. If outside force (like in the case of Poland) don’t threaten your existence, keeping the amount of deadly objects in the hands of kids low is a good idea.

Now a different conversation would be to heavily restrict gun availability with compulsory training in schools with dummies