American Hitler youth

Sorry for bright mode I didn’t take this screenshot.

  • invalidusernamelol [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Training kids to properly and safely handle a firearm is actually a good idea. Especially in a country where the likelihood of running into one is so high

  • NomadicWarMachine [any]
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    3 years ago

    Tbf, a lot of socialists states have youth cores that do shit with guns too

  • Chapo_is_Red [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Children learning to shoot is not fascist. The only thing possibly making this fascist is being in Amerikkka.

    You might as well show a picture of a US k-12 chemistry class titled "Nazi scientists in training", which would be a pretty good bit.

    • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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      3 years ago

      You might as well show a picture of a US k-12 chemistry class titled “Nazi scientists in training”, which would be a pretty good bit.

      :data-laughing:

    • zifnab25 [he/him, any]
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      3 years ago

      a US k-12 chemistry class

      Do those even still exist? Even in my high school days, the science classes were so comically defunded as to be little more than lessons on memorizing the periodic table.

  • Mehrunes_Laser [comrade/them, any]
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    3 years ago

    The kids who's parents are filling their heads with hate will already have a gun and will be training with it .

    The marginalized kids, who are probably also poor, will have no other access to firearm training. They will therefore find themselves undertrained and defenseless if those hitler youths you're so worried about actually decided to do something.

    I was fat, gay coded, unathletic, pokemon nerd living in section 8 when I was in school. Guess which category I was in when I took a hunting safety class at my local YMCA at 8 years old?

  • footfaults
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    1 month ago

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    • Cowboyitis69 [he/him]
      hexagon
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      3 years ago

      Soviet Union was a besieged leftist project. America is….the opposite of that.

  • ItsPequod [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    The only problem I got with this pic is the optics. Back in my day we had to get good with the pellet guns with plain old iron sights and we liked it. The fuck kinda target these kids need a zoom optic for? Pellets obviously famous for their long range accuracy

    • Quimby [any, any]
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      3 years ago

      right? lol. "yeah, I reckon I can take an aluminum can from 15, maybe 20 yards."

    • SerLava [he/him]
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      3 years ago

      Seems like it would be a good way to train a kid on the basics of a hunting rifle, even if it's not necessary for the particular gun. And it's definitely easier, which is good when you're introducing something difficult to a kid.

  • ScienceBear [he/him]
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    3 years ago

    Marksmanship is fine and cool to teach kids in the right context. High precision shots involve patience, timing, and breathing regulation. Honestly serves as a kind of meditation sometimes.

    • REallyN [she/her,they/them]
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      3 years ago

      obviously, the whole context surrounding guns in school makes this kinda yikes.
      but theoretically I don't know if it's too different from archery which my school did occassionally.

      • Alaskaball [comrade/them]A
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        3 years ago

        Airguns. They shoot pellets.

        There used to be .22LR rifles used in schools but were withdrawn from service because of lead exposure in poorly ventilated indoor ranges due to that when a lot of schools were built lead poisoning wasn't a very big thing.

  • Tapirs10 [undecided,she/her]
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    3 years ago

    This is just something that is only bad because it is america doing it. Not something inherently bad

    • Sickos [they/them, it/its]
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      3 years ago

      *gun training, but I'm gonna leave it because it's always more of a slip than a typo.

  • D61 [any]
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    3 years ago

    Basic rifle marksmanship is good actually.