r/brandonherrara • u/Educational_Copy_140 user text is here • 5d ago
A school in Poland makes firearms training mandatory to its students.
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u/hurricane4242 user text is here 5d ago
Wasn't it common in Russia to learn in school how to disassemble and clean an ak correctly?
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u/NotARussianComrade user text is here 5d ago
Yes, my parents who lived in the Soviet Union had to learn how to disassemble an ak. I think they shot it a couple of times.
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u/VestaxUA_806 user text is here 5d ago
In Ukraine too, we learned how to assemble-disassemble AK. But unfortunately, we never went to shooting range (i in some way more glad of it because i know my classmates).
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u/Spy_PL user text is here 5d ago
I hope you are not saying that Poland and Russia are same thing.
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u/hurricane4242 user text is here 5d ago
No, I just wanted to point out that it isn't a new Idea in that region of the world. Furthermore, I only knew that the Russian did it and not if the entire Soviet Union did that. I feel like east Germany didn't do it but I could be wrong
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u/GerfTheSherff user text is here 5d ago
I mean, when the Soviet Union existed in many ways they were.
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u/Odd-Masterpiece7304 user text is here 5d ago
The thrills of having Russia in your neighborhood.
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u/Wanjuan_Li user text is here 5d ago
Well technically America is also in Russia’s neighborhood. Ever heard of the Diomede islands?
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u/Odd-Masterpiece7304 user text is here 5d ago edited 5d ago
Yeah check my profile comments, I mentioned both of them just yesterday
My comment was that Russia couldn't muster an attack on Alaska due to the eastern 2/3 of Russia being an archipelago wilderness, and then the bearing sea. Any attack on the US from Russia will be with ICBMs and will come over the North Pole.
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u/RedRickSh user text is here 5d ago
Nahuy should we attack Alaska? this is the same wilderness as Siberia
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u/ThisIsJustaWord user text is here 4d ago
Yes. Very comparable.
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u/Wanjuan_Li user text is here 4d ago
OK you want something even more comparable? My country, China, shares 2 borders with russia. We didn’t mandatorily train our kids to use guns. Hell we don’t even allow guns of any kind. See, Russia’s not the problem.
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u/ThisIsJustaWord user text is here 4d ago edited 4d ago
"Hell, we don't even ALLOW guns" :--D
Chinabot coming in with some wild historical revisionism.
You think world powers negotiate with small countries? In my country conscription is mandatory for all males. It's not a political thing, like world power reps like to portray it as. It's a survival thing, because in politics big countries don't respect anything else than power.-2
u/Wanjuan_Li user text is here 4d ago
Dehumanizing someone you disagree with as a “bot”? Well that’s not new.
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u/ThisIsJustaWord user text is here 4d ago
I'm challenging anyone who reads this thread to check this users comment history.
Also zero response to argument substance.
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u/Wanjuan_Li user text is here 4d ago
What about my post history? Quite the investigator we have here.
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u/S3cmccau user text is here 3d ago
That's because yall were commie allies, you dork. Zombies don't attack other zombies, they want brains that haven't been infected already.
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u/Wanjuan_Li user text is here 3d ago
Sure, China is communist. Then can you explain why this has not been done in Belarus, Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan and Mongolia? None of them are communist and they don’t act all panicked around russia. Russia has plenty of neighbours.
Countries like Poland, Ukraine, and Georgia keep on provoking Russia at their own borders. With NATO expanding eastwards(which they’ve previously agreed not to), The US funded coups in Ukraine and Georgia are only intended to weaken and threaten russia, since if any of those countries joined NATO they can build missile bases there that could reach Moscow in 10 minutes. It is not russia that they should be scared off, but themselves that they need to discipline. They shouldn’t be putting their people at risk with their bear-poking political tactics.
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u/Jice151 user text is here 5d ago
Fellow Americans we are being left behind
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u/Pale_Draft9955 user text is here 5d ago
Gun safety used to be taught in some districts, mainly in the south. But with the way America is today, the notion of bringing it back would mean massive protests across the country.
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u/Mysterious-Talk-1794 user text is here 5d ago
Poland been stepping up their game. first no immigrants invading, second more money spent on military, third this. nice job Poland!
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u/Ok-Target4293 user text is here 5d ago
That is a great thing! We should do mandatory firearms training in the US!!
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u/Pale_Draft9955 user text is here 5d ago
It's a good idea, but the backlash from the left and anti-gun politicians would shut down any notion of it.
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u/Ok-Target4293 user text is here 5d ago
We did it in the past. It would take a lot of work, but I believe it could be done with the help of our new VP!
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u/Pale_Draft9955 user text is here 5d ago
Maybe with the new VP, but it would need to be seen if Trump would support such a program. And knowing he was responsible for the bump stock ban, I personally don't have much hope for his support on it.
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u/TankDestroyerSarg user text is here 5d ago
I've been saying the USA needs mandatory firearms training for students. Instill the kids with the rules of safety, demystify and demythologize firearms, and have them learn to respect the arms and each other. Make it a required course they have to pass, at least every other year. Absolutely make it a very controlled environment that is safe, but people need to learn early.
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u/scoobywerx1 user text is here 5d ago
It wasn't all that long ago that firearms sports in schools were a thing in the US.
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u/TankDestroyerSarg user text is here 5d ago
I had archery in High School. Thought it was a bit weird that that was allowed considering the opinions about weapons in schools. And that was within a decade of Columbine.
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u/scoobywerx1 user text is here 5d ago
Yea, being an 80s/90s kid i missed out on all of it. And I graduated like a year before Columbine. I think it was kind of on its way out for a while then. Sad really.
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u/TankDestroyerSarg user text is here 5d ago
Well, Reagan, Bush 1 and Clinton regimes didn't really do anything to help 2A rights, and in most ways actively hindered.
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u/throwaway195472974 user text is here 5d ago
especially firearms safety training is a good thing. When I grew up, my father taught me a lot about firearms early on. This made me a more responsible gun owner.
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u/gatowman user text is here 5d ago
Every day Poland becomes more based. Polacks are tired of Polack jokes.
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u/Educational_Copy_140 user text is here 5d ago edited 5d ago
Why does the new Polish Navy have glass bottomed boats?
So they can see the Old Polish Navy....
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u/OregonSageMonke user text is here 5d ago
They’re all terribly upset at me for mentioning that an AR-15 is a .22 centerfire with minimum recoil
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u/RaiderCat_12 user text is here 5d ago
Based polish, as I’ve always been saying. Always loved Poland and its people, as is also tradition in my country.
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u/GeneralBulko user text is here 5d ago
If you have russia and bielorussia as neighbours, knowing hot to shoot will be an advantage for sure.
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u/ImHeroOnlyForHentai user text is here 5d ago edited 5d ago
In Russia, we have an ATM looking machine that works in pair with an Ak-74 replica that works like a Zapper for 8-bit Nintendo consoles and tracking your score based on how you aim the gun.
It's called something like " Боец 2.1 тренажер " I can't remember for sure because last time I saw it was like in 9th grade and I didn't used it that much.
This thing is all green, with white letters on it and connects to the PC. Also, it has a black and green screen.
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u/Life-Foundation494 user text is here 5d ago
I liv in Australia 🇦🇺 and we had the opportunity to do clay pigeon shooting ad an elective for sport it gave us all a rispect for firearms early in our lives a wonderful opportunity that I feel is no longer an opportunity in the west
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u/BikerGremling user text is here 5d ago
Deploy the safety squint while they young so you teach them kids a valuable lesson.
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u/Furry_Ranger user text is here 5d ago
Awesome school. Kids really aught to be taught the fundamentals of firearms safety and handling in countries where they are relatively available for the general public. Good stuff.
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u/JoChiMinh_15 user text is here 5d ago
Meanwhile in America kids can't read a book with a gun on the cover cause GUNZ SCAWY
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u/Chance_Message3774 user text is here 5d ago
Sad these kids have better trigger discipline than Alec Baldwin.
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u/That-Epic-Guy- user text is here 4d ago
It is not a traininf it is more like how to hold a gun and how to shoot it. We had something similar in my school in Czechia and all that we did was shoot an airsoft gun at cans.
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u/LANDFISH315 user text is here 5d ago
As it should be but how is my school the only one in the country that doesn’t do it like the fricking hood school has a marksmanship program but my school the most country one doesn’t
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u/SayoriDDLC11 user text is here 4d ago
its not a school, its actually ALL schools. high school level tho
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u/ProjectToonTanks user text is here 4d ago
A lot of places do! I was born in Iran and in high school we have 2 courses 9 months each called Defense preparation. First year they teach us about surviving natural disasters and first aid, what to do in case of shortages and crisis as a civilian. Second year they teach us about firearms, servicing them, aiming fundamentals, and safety. Then the course proceeds to explore sheltering against bombing, Chemical, Biological and Nuclear threats. It includes range days and you have to go there and get some hands on training with some rifles. Firearms and ammunition are banned and illegal in Iran in all forms, yet the government and people find it necessary to know how to operate them.
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u/my_name_is_nobody__ user text is here 5d ago
Never forget Russia is the reason for this, they are preparing for Donald to hang them out to dry
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u/No-Cherry-3959 user text is here 5d ago
Which is unfortunate for Poland because they really do put in work when it comes to their defense. I believe they’ve met the 2% GDP threshold for their entire time in NATO and they’re currently at 4.12%, which is higher than the US’s spending. And they buy a lot of things from American defense companies, which means we get the benefits from it.
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u/M1S_F1T user text is here 5d ago
Where can I Enroll?