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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The person who supposedly represents me in Congress got caught up in the active shooter false alarm at Walter Reed yesterday.
His staff tweeted that he was sheltered and hiding in a closet somewhere.
I tweeted back that I’ll bet he wishes right now that he had some means to defend himself and protect others, such as a handgun.
No response from him, but several snarky comments back from liberal snowflakes about how stupid that would be.
Frankly, nothing would be smarter than to be hunkered down in a room when a gunman enters and to alleviate the situation.
I’ve often believed it to be true that if there were an incident, if everyone rushed the gunman rather than ran away, they would quickly overpower him. Throwing hard objects can’t hurt.
Who knew Harriet was a lefty at heart.
Came here for this. Was not disappointed.
I read his autobiography a couple years ago. Found it in front of a good will type store for a buck. Fun read. Not hysterical, but fun.
I worked in an office where there’s a very small but real chance of an active shooter situation. The office has a single point of entry and the door locks. I’m always joking about a plan to bring in a large bottle of Crisco to spread all over the floor near the entrance. That way if the shooter shoots his way inside, he’ll slip and break his neck, allowing the rest of us time to deploy our hockey pucks.
The first “victim” will be a teacher.
A bunch of scared girly dumbed down kids throwing hockey pucks at a gunman hosing them down with bullets while the school administrators hide behind their desks and the local cops ordered to stand down so they don’t get hurt in this “gun free zone”.
Yesterday: A farce movie.
Today: A real life situation.
I’d prefer a weighted stick about 18-24 inches long.
Might be better off arming them with lacrosse sticks and balls.
Those suckers HURT when you get hit with them.
And many of those kids are GOOD shots.
Oakland University motto: “Bring a hockey puck to a gunfight”
Be careful, kids. You could put an eye out with that thing.
Hmmmm ... fascinating ... of course the courts will have to rule on whether it will be permissible to conceal-carry your hockey puck.
That gunfight as depicted in the movie “Heat” was awesome.
By golly, that’s it! Girls can take off their bras and use them as slingshots!
How about a Wrist Rocket firing ball bearings? A shot to the head would do real damage.
However, a combat vet school guard with a Glock would do even more damage.
How many of you could throw a hockey puck that far?
An another freeper said: the only effective defense against a bad guy with a gun is a good guy with a gun.
I bet it was pretty good...he had a pretty good life.
Funny thing I was reading a sports column the other day in which the writer mentioned that not so long ago he had asked Bill Russell to sign a copy of his (Russell’s) autobiography.
Russell graciously did so, and the writer took the opportunity to ask Russell if, after all these years, he was still satisfied with the book.
Russell laughed heartily, told the guy “Well, I can’t really say, I never read a single page.”
Like Charles Barkley, who claimed he was misquoted in his autobiography...ha!
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