The puck stops here

[kidicarus13]

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/michiga...tive-shooters/
Michigan's Oakland University using hockey pucks to protect against active shooters

1:19 PM EST?U.S.
BY CAITLIN O'KANE / CBS NEWS

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Oakland University in Rochester Hills, Michigan, has adopted a unique method of protection against active shooters: Hockey pucks,?The Detroit Free Press reports.?The idea was sparked when Oakland University Police Chief Mark Gordon?said hockey pucks were good for self-defense during a training session in March.?

The campus has a no-weapons policy, so attendees at the training session asked what they should use instead, according to the paper. Gordon suggested that when fleeing or hiding weren't an option, a last resort would be to throw something that could distract a shooter ? like a hockey puck.
"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 said, according to the paper. Gordon, a youth hockey coach, said getting hit in the head with a puck gave him the idea.?
Oakland University professor Tom Discenna then spearheaded the effort by the faculty union to purchase 2,500 pucks ? 800 for union members and another 1,700 for students. The pucks cost 94 cents each, and distribution will begin this month. The student congress also ordered 1,000 hockey pucks.?
Discenna, the president of the faculty union and a professor of communications, said holding the puck will remind people they're not powerless. The pucks are also part of a larger campaign for higher campus security.?
The pucks are imprinted with a number people can enter on?Oakland University's fundraising page to raise money for new classroom locks, some of which can only be locked from the hallway.?

"We know locking the classroom, in and of itself, is a big deterrent" to a shooter, Gordon said, according to the Detroit Free Press.
The American Association of University Professors, the student government and Oakland University Student Congress have each made $5,000 donations toward the new locks.?
The university holds active shooter trainings several times a year. Gordon said they focus on fleeing first and then hiding as a second option. throwing a hockey puck should be "an absolute last strategy," he said.?

[BPTactical]

At least they are starting to get the idea that fighting back is the appropriate response.
Oh, and unless you have a slap shot like Al McGinnis you had best run afterwards.

[ray1970]

Ha. Hope you carry a stick too.

They were going to be doing some remodeling at a place I used to work so we decided to start a little early on the demolition. Flimsy interior doors are no match for a stiff slap shot. Also, a sturdy office chair will clear two sheets of sheet rock with a good throw.

[Rooskibar03]

The campus has a no weapon policy. Definition of a weapon "a thing designed or used for inflicting bodily harm or physical damage".

Doesn't throwing a hockey puck at someone make it become a weapon? So following that logic it should fall under the no weapon policy...

[SideShow Bob]

Doesn't throwing a hockey puck at someone make it become a weapon? So following that logic it should fall under the no weapon policy...

Just like an AR pistol brace, it is not how it is used, it is how it is designed and intended to be used........

[10x]

The very definition of stupid and inadequate.

[BladesNBarrels]

Wasn't there a school district that put buckets of rocks in the room for defense?

Every classroom has been equipped with a five-gallon bucket of river stone. If an armed intruder attempts to gain entrance into any of our classrooms, they will face a classroom full students armed with rocks and they will be stoned," said Dr. David Helsel.

https://abc13.com/education/school-a...ooter/3251600/

[Mazin]

Never take a puck to a gun fight....

[Justin]

The campus has a no weapon policy. Definition of a weapon "a thing designed or used for inflicting bodily harm or physical damage".

Doesn't throwing a hockey puck at someone make it become a weapon? So following that logic it should fall under the no weapon policy...

If sporting goods are allowed on campus, and can therefore be used in self defense against an active shooter, then they should have no problem with students having competition target pistols with them, and, hey, maybe, in an active shooting situation, those target pistols could be used to distract an active shooter by putting a hole in his chest.

[sniper7]

Well Puck me that is a stupid idea.