Hockey pucks pitched as self-defense against potential active shooters at Michigan university By Amy Lieu | Fox News Hockey pucks are distributed at Oakland University in Michigan to protect students from active shooter situations, reports said Tuesday. AUFD refers to the All University Fund Drive. (Oakland University) How do you stop a bad guy with a gun when there's no good guy with a gun around? Maybe throw a hockey puck at him. A university in suburban Detroit is distributing hockey pucks as a form of self-defense against potential active shooters, according to reports. Because Oakland University has a no-weapons policy, university police Chief Mark Gordon suggested using a hockey puck to distract a shooter. "The first thing that came to my mind was a hockey puck. I was a hockey coach for my kids growing up. I remember getting hit in the head with a hockey puck once and it hurt," university police Chief Mark Gordon told Detroit's FOX 2. "The first thing that came to my mind was a hockey puck. I was a hockey coach for my kids growing up. I remember getting hit in the head with a hockey puck once and it hurt." — Chief Mark Gordon, Oakland University police Gordon said to fight effectively, faculty and students need to be prepared to throw heavy objects that will cause a distraction. Gordan said pucks fit the bill and can conveniently be carried in brief cases or backpacks. "It was just kind of a spur-of-the-moment idea that seemed to have some merit to it and it kind of caught on," Gordon told the Detroit News. Upon Gordon's suggestion, Professor Tom Discenna, president of the faculty union, spearheaded an effort to purchase 2,500 hockey pucks for union members and students, the Free Press reported. "Eight hundred of them have been distributed to our faculty members and there's an additional 1,700 that I'm working with student congress to distribute to our students," Discenna told FOX 2. "It’s just the idea of having something, a reminder that you’re not powerless and you’re not helpless in the classroom," Discenna told the paper. "It’s just the idea of having something, a reminder that you’re not powerless and you’re not helpless in the classroom." — Professor Tom Discenna, Oakland University The black discs were distributed earlier this month, and are part of a campaign to raise money for interior locks on classroom doors, the report said. The effort, spurred by the need for safety education after the Virginia Tech rampage in 2007, will "empower faculty and students to have a plan to have something to defend themselves rather than just freezing in place," Gordon told the Detroit News. In May, poll results showed that nearly three-quarters of Michigan's teachers opposed efforts to arm teachers, the Free Press reported. https://www.foxnews.com/us/hockey-p...nst-potential-shooters-in-michigan-university
I've heard similar reactions to an active shooter before so, yeah, I think they're serious. Me? I'd be too busy ducking and trying to get in a safer position to be throwing something. The only exception to that would be to put myself between the shooter and my wife or between the shooter and a small child. I'm not sure why but this reminds me of a Max trip I made returning from a Blazer game. There was a young man, maybe 17 or 18 with a filthy mouth and a middle aged very husky gentleman with a small son wearing a Blazer hat. The man got angry at the young man because of his filthy mouth and threatened to beat the shit out of the young man. I had to intercede and tell the guy, no, you can't beat up a teenager no matter how dirty his mouth, which I didn't like either. Maybe it's just that I'll risk my health when something important comes up.
This idea of hockey pucks is silly. If this does anything it is likely to attract one of these nutjobs. It literally makes them MORE of a target.
I never use these things, but here goes, one time! ROTFLMAO! Several real chuckles was as close as I am going to get!
