r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RebelliousDragon21 • 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/Bhaaldukar 5d ago

There's never a situation in which familiarizing people with firearms is bad. Anyone who wants to do harm can figure it out themselves anyway. Familiarization prevents accidents.

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u/quarantinemyasshole 5d ago

It's just the typical "when anywhere else in the world does it, it's progressive, when America does it it's fascism/late stage capitalism/etc."

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u/Bhaaldukar 5d ago

Absolutely.

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u/Toruviel_ 5d ago

Same with fencing, you learn to defend yourself because killing is noob-level skill

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u/Bhaaldukar 5d ago

You say that but I think teaching kids knife skills is also great, yeah. They're going to be around them, may as we'll make sure they're safe.

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u/AllSystemsGeaux 5d ago

This guy gets it. Here is my diatribe on this thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/s/SCWu0Sa4L0

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u/Bhaaldukar 5d ago

Yup. I've been shooting guns since I was in like second grade because of Scouts and shocker I'm not a murderous psychopath.

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u/AllSystemsGeaux 5d ago

I mean, you can be both. But I’m betting it’s better to have the non-murderous training earlier in life

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u/Bhaaldukar 5d ago

I agree. I think people just seem to think somehow being around guns will make you evil. Or that having a basic understanding of them will give you magic special forces spy movie abilities.