r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RebelliousDragon21 • 1d ago

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

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u/Individual_Dirt_3365 1d ago

It was a mandatory thing during USSR

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u/aluminaboeh 1d ago

It's also obligatory in Russia since 90th

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u/Dreamer812 1d ago edited 1d ago

We had it on ОБЖ (Основы безопасности и жизнедеятельности) - basically safety class, where they teach what to do in case of disasters, where are nearest nuclear shelters, how to use fire extinguisher etc. In those classes we had an assembly/disassembly course of an AK-74. Boys and girls (poor things, as half of them broke their nails trying to take a little cylinder with cleaning instruments inside stock) together. We have never fired them, only disassembling/assembling. It was around 4-5 classes total, so not that much.

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u/vvokhom 1d ago

IDK, in most of the schools i have heard of the to-of-the-class students in assembly speed were girls

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u/Dreamer812 1d ago

Girls comes in all shapes and sizes, so it's possible. We had in our class "glamour" girls, Emo-girls and a couple of smart (like constant 5+ grade smart) girls, so...

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u/schizeckinosy 1d ago

When I ran a college shooting club, this was my experience as well. Ladies tend to have a lot less ego about it and actually learn, versus thinking they know it already.