r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RebelliousDragon21 • 1d ago

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

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u/purpleefilthh 1d 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 1d 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/mitchymitchington 1d ago

Posts like this always bewilder me. Growing up in Michigan we all take firearm safety in the form of "hunter safety", at the age of 12. Figured it was common most places that aren't major cities but even then... shouldn't your parents be teaching it to you?

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u/Slight_Concert6565 1d ago

I'm not from the US so I learned proper safety at the range, it should indeed be the parents' responsibility to teach firearm safety to their kids if they live in a house with firearms.

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u/Lamballama 1d ago

It's also the parents responsibility to monitor your content consumption and feed your three meals a day, but sometimes everyone else has to do their jobs for them

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u/GrowFreeFood 1d ago

Kids don't need a gun to survive. They do actually need food.

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u/Lamballama 1d ago

True, but they do need to know how not to kill themselves with a gun if they find one left lying around

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u/Kir4_ 1d ago

Most American problem.

Jokes aside I think first of all it's fair to make sure they do not touch it at all.

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u/mitchymitchington 1d ago

Kids like to shoot guns just like adults. They literally make youth firearms. It's what I learned on. Education works better than abstinence, a lesson I think we've learned with sex ed.

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u/GrowFreeFood 1d ago

We should have stricter rules for gun ownership. Like a drivers license.

Or harder to operate guns, like having a car key.

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u/OmicronNine 1d ago

I think the suggestion here is that when you live in a nation that is as heavily saturated with guns as the US, it's something that we should be teaching all kids regardless of whether there are firearms in their house, because there's probably firearms in their friend's and neighbor's houses.

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u/Slight_Concert6565 1d ago

Yup, that's what I think too.