Posted on 11/28/2018 3:50:55 AM PST by a little elbow grease
Hockey pucks: They're small, heavy and — one Michigan college thinks — might be the perfect weapon against an active shooter on campus.
Oakland University, a public school located in Rochester Hills, near Detroit, is distributing thousands of 94-cent hockey pucks for just that reason.
The distribution, which began earlier this month, stemmed from a March faculty active-shooter training session following February's shooting at a Parkland, Fla., high school that left 17 dead.
A participant at the training asked the Oakland University Police Chief Mark Gordon what items people could use to defend themselves on the campus, which has a no-weapons policy, the Detroit Free Press reports.
A hockey puck was a "spur-of-the-moment idea that seemed to have some merit to it and it kind of caught on," Gordon said.
The faculty union followed up on the idea, purchasing 2,500 hockey pucks: 800 for union members and 1,700 for students, the Free Press reports. (snip) -- "If you threw [a hockey puck] at a gunman it would probably cause some injury. It would be a distraction, if nothing else," Gordon told WXYZ, a local ABC station. The police chief also suggested a group of students could "rush" an active shooter with their pucks, creating a distraction that would allow someone else to get their hands on the shooter's weapon.
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That hard piece of rubber hurts if it is thrown accurately. Given the fact that the school boys today have been wussified, maybe the girls ought to have the pucks.
...hope they get funds for broken windows....
A bunch of cue balls would be better. Put it in a sock and it because a deadly weapon.
Couldn’t they hand out the hockey sticks instead? Just watching those hockey videos....you seem to be able to do a lot of damage to guys with the stick.
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That's good, but you have to get pretty close to use them.
;-)
Good gawd, people are stupid.
Not very effective if the shooter is a goalie.
Hockey pucks handed out to more hockey pucks by even more hockey pucks.
Ahhh...the “Don Rickles” defense.
good idea
I do think this counterforce strategy has a place in a classroom - as long as there’s backup lethal force in the plan.
A hail of hard objects thrown at a shooter’s head disrupts timing and aim, and if properly drilled and executed could save a lot of lives - as long as, after the students are out of ammo, there’s a professional to shoot the scumbag in the head.
Don Rickles,
The One
THE ONLY!
School system to children:"We, the totally feckless adults in charge, are unable to protect you - so here's your weapon."
Sounds like the jerks I had to work with.
NPR
Ninja throwing stars.
But he’d be too busy catching them to shoot!
No thanks.
I’ll keep my 1911.
Call 'em dummy too.
'Cause that kind of insult can really throw a gunman off his mark.
This is a joke right?
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