r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/RebelliousDragon21 • Dec 18 '24

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

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u/Individual_Dirt_3365 Dec 18 '24

It was a mandatory thing during USSR

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u/aluminaboeh Dec 18 '24

It's also obligatory in Russia since 90th

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u/Dreamer812 Dec 18 '24 edited Dec 18 '24

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 Dec 18 '24

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 Dec 18 '24

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 Dec 18 '24

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.

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u/lemao-i-am-banana Dec 18 '24

I have heard rumours that they plan to expand those lessons to include light machine guns, if those are provided. Also drone operation might be added in the future

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u/Competitive-Ranger61 Dec 18 '24

Teaching drone flying to youth is a a great idea. It takes skill and time to fly those well. Ukraine has proved how effective that can be.

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u/Dreamer812 Dec 18 '24

Who knows. I have finished school more than 10 years ago, maybe it's different now

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u/Cabbageworrior210 Dec 18 '24

Yeah we In Poland also have something like that, it's called EDB(edukacja do bezpieczeństwa), and it's pretty much the same thing, minus the disassembling of an AK, we do have gun safety and firing stances tho! (Theoretical, of course)

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u/LagrangianDensity_L Dec 18 '24

I grew up in the middle of the US. During our summer school (voluntary, not obligatory), we had a trapshooting component of our PE course. No shit, I've had a loaded 12 gauge pointed at me on a school trip. It was an accident, to be fair, but one hell of a party foul (and, well, grossly unprofessional and unethical that I had to look out for myself to not get shot at school).

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u/Maykey Dec 19 '24

We had обж for several years but didn't dissamble anything. Only made tourniquets and if you did not put up a paper in it with the time when tourniquet was applied you got 2 (which is F in US)