"NEVER PLAY 'LADY OF SPAIN' AGAIN!!!"
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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At least they’re not semi-automatic assault pucks.
Warning: Active shooters are at risk of getting pucked.
This actually is a dramatically cheaper - but also dramatically less effective - version of my idea. Which is to install a fixed “gun” capable of semiautomatic fire of 100 mph fastballs. If armored, such a weapon would, at a minimum, grip the attention of the miscreant entirely, preventing him from taking the time to take out anyone else.Without being exactly a deadly weapon. Dangerous, yes, but not deadly like a rifle would be. And of course the installation should include a rifle as a backup to guarantee adequacy of armament.
Following the school that handed out rocks. Rocks are free. Taxpayers have to foot the bill for hockey pucks.
Yeah well, they better hope the kids don’t get a wild hair up their azz and start launching those things for fun.
Rocks are even cheaper. But libs say they aren’t harmful and border patrol shouldn’t use guns against poor innocent rock throwers.
On the chance the Perp has groin "armor" if one goes to the side a bit there is a chance of hitting the femoral artery or at least the femur or pelvis/hip.
Even if body armor is hit the human body is going to pay close attention to the impact force.
U.S. Soldier hit by Baghdad sniper. Soldier had Hard Chest Plate Insert.
I bet the girls throw like girls, and the boys throw like girls, and the teachers would simply hurls names at the shooter such as racist homophobe!
I miss him. I go on Youtube for an occasional dose of Rickles.
Ok - so we’re at about the 90 post mark and after reviewing the comments (I might have missed it) I find it hard to believe that no one has yet said the inevitable:
Never bring a hockey puck to a gun fight.
Rarely, will, a hockey puck leave a prep dead.
"NEVER PLAY 'LADY OF SPAIN' AGAIN!!!"
Former goaltender here.
You haven't lived 'til you've had your cup split in half by a slapper from between the dots.
Well, yes, but the original comment was about hockey pucks.
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What if he doesn't go to a preparatory school?
;-)
I'm certain hockey sticks are not permitted. Too dangerous to have people wandering around on campus with hockey sticks.
Never bring a hockey puck to a gun fight."
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post #’s 55 and 72 //// hockey puck ..... gun fight.
Your review needs to be reviewed.
Give them Frisbees with Razor sharp edges like Oddjob’s Hat in Goldfinger.
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In this case, I think that is the idea.
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