Posted on 11/28/2018 10:12:18 AM PST by Simon Green
Schools will go to great lengths to avoid letting faculty and staff carry firearms to protect themselves and their students. First there was the Pennsylvania school district that’s equipping each classroom with a bucket of rocks to chuck at a potential shooter. Most will teach kids to toss books and chairs…anything that’s at hand in order to slow a shooter down.
The fact that more districts and law enforcement officials are coming around to the realization that arming teachers and staff is the most effective option to save lives doesn’t seem to have made much of an impression on the powers that be at Oakland University in Auburn Hills, Michigan.
OU is, of course, a designated gun-free zone. So, with any kind of ballistic response off the table, the school’s chosen weapon against armed attackers will be…hockey pucks.
“We believe that once faculty have been trained in what to do in an active shooter situation, they will be able to share that information with students to provide a more secure learning environment,”says (American Association of University Professors) President Tom Discenna.
In addition to training, the union has also distributed hockey pucks to its members and to students.
According to (OU Police Chief Mark) Gordon, to fight effectively, faculty and students need to be prepared to throw objects that are heavy and will cause a distraction.
Hockey pucks provide the ability to be carried in brief cases or backpacks, are not considered a weapon, and will meet the goal of distracting the shooter, according to Gordon.
Pure genius. Because the last thing you want when someone’s walking through campus shooting at people is anything that’s “considered a weapon.”
Currently, the (professors) union has distributed the pucks to its 800 members and is working with student groups to distribute an additional 1,700 pucks to students.
The hockey pucks are also being used as a fundraising device as the union seeks to raise the necessary money to equip all campus classroom doors with a lock that can be used without leaving the room in the event of an emergency.
Got that? The school’s door locks are currently outside the classrooms’ doors. So students can’t even lock the doors from the inside to slow down a potential shooter. Maybe they’ll draw lots to see who goes outside and locks the doors (thus locking themselves out of the classroom).
At least they’ll have those vulcanized rubber discs in their backpacks.
https://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3708974/posts
For Defense Against Active Shooters, Mich. School Hands Out Hockey Pucks
npr.org ^ | 11/28/18 | Emily Sullivan
Related article (but from NPR) also being discussed.
Future headline: “Oakland University successfully ransacked by rogue gang of Finnish goalies recently placed on waivers”
Liberal minds at their finest on display:-)
5 MILLION HOCKEY PUCKS WOULD HAVE ENDED WWII FASTER THAN FAT MAN AND LITTLE BOY!!!!
YOU’RE ALL JUST A BUNCH OF GUN FANATICS HERE!!!!
ARE YOU BLIND?!!?
Hockey pucks are the answer :)
Let’s just thank our stars that the Germans and Japanese didn’t think of this fearsome weapon before the war ended.
lol on both posts
This thread has the potential to have the funnies responses of any thread in a long time :)
It should be put under breaking and important news :)
Just for the laughs factor.
How many hockey pucks is considered a basic load?
Hockey Pucks? Wouldn't rocks be cheaper? Some nitwits in Pennylsvania think so.
What good will hockey pucks do? All the snowflakes throw like little girls.
Shots ring out, and you hear teachers cry, “Puck him! Puck him!”
They’ll need hockey sticks too.
are not considered a weapon,
= = =
If you are carrying it to use as a weapon, it is.
Over 10 is “extended”
Shots ring out, and you hear teachers cry, “Puck him! Puck him!”
“PUCK YOU!”
As much as that does indeed sound like Feinstein, it’s a fake quote.
Gotta feel sorry for the active shooter who has a choice of shooting the nearest warm body or getting in some skeet practice ...
- create a device that can throw the hockey puck a little harder...based physics (F = ma)
- create a device that can throw the hockey puck with a little more accuracy...I don't want to take a chance of mis-aiming my one and only hockey puck!
- create a device that can throw multiple hockey pucks...in case the would-be shooter is amped up on meth and doesn't go down with the first puck.
- make a smaller hockey puck, one that isn't so heavy. To compensate for the weight, I'll make it out of...oh, I don't know, lead.
- Finally, I might want to make those lead hockey pucks travel a little faster, maybe by some kind of explosive mechanism.
In the end, what have I created? It sounds a lot like...a gun?
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