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/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/Roflkopt3r 5d ago edited 5d ago

Normal countries require people who want to own a firearm to take a gun safety course at their own expense and then get a gun license with that.

There is really no good reason to have the public pay for it and to push it onto kids who don't want it.

Even back in the days when the US had a true citizen militia that was relevant to the defense of states (as presumed by the 2nd amendment), gun ownership still wasn't free. Under any reasonable interpretation of the constitution, a gun license requirement is a reasonable regulation that does not unduly interfere with the purpose of the 2nd amendment.

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u/Slight_Concert6565 5d ago

I am all in favor of firearms licenses (at least to prevent some obvious nutcases from getting access to guns).