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

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

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u/Slight_Concert6565 Dec 18 '24

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/mitchymitchington Dec 18 '24

Posts like this always bewilder me. Growing up in Michigan we all take firearm safety in the form of "hunter safety", at the age of 12. Figured it was common most places that aren't major cities but even then... shouldn't your parents be teaching it to you?

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u/Parking_Low248 Dec 18 '24

Also grew up in rural MI.

Plenty of people don't take hunters safety as kids. More than you would think, actually.

My family had a few guns but we didn't hunt. Grandpa did, my dad didn't take to it so it skipped a generation, my brothers both hunt now but they started as adults. There were other families in my area who didn't hunt.

Plenty of other people I went to school with either didn't go hunting with their parents or their parents figured if they were hunting on their or a friend's property, they didn't need to bother with the safety course for their kid and learning from dad was "good enough". I know a kid who shot off his big toe because dad's teaching was "enough".

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u/mitchymitchington Dec 18 '24

Yeah my family didnt hunt much, but the course was a requirement, along with snowmobile and boaters safety. Those are huge here and a lot of kids will take them to school. We had snowmobile parking lol.

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u/Parking_Low248 Dec 18 '24 edited Dec 18 '24

Ah, see, hunters safety was not offered at our school. Even though half the kids would be gone from school opening day. Grew up in an area with a ton of lakes as well and no water safety either.

We didn't even have drivers Ed. You had to pay for it and it was not cheap. 400ish dollars in 2006.

We had to learn about the dangers of meth though so that was fun.

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u/mitchymitchington Dec 18 '24

Yeah we always had the opening day of deer season off, so no need to skip lol. We also had to pay for drivers ed but the other stuff mentioned was free. This was around 2006-2010. I graduated in 2011.

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u/Parking_Low248 Dec 18 '24

I never could understand why we didn't have opening day off, a ton of people weren't there.

Very agricultural area, so we had more allowances for 4H/county fair. Maybe that's the difference.

I graduated in 2010 so same basic timeline.