{"id":83175,"date":"2018-11-30T11:19:43","date_gmt":"2018-11-30T15:19:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=83175"},"modified":"2022-01-13T20:33:03","modified_gmt":"2022-01-14T01:33:03","slug":"puck-yourselves-university-hands-out-hockey-pucks-npr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=83175","title":{"rendered":"Puck Yourselves, University Hands Out Hockey Pucks : NPR"},"content":{"rendered":"

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For Defense Against Active Shooters, University Hands Out Hockey Pucks<\/h1>\n

Hockey pucks: They’re small and heavy and \u2014 one Michigan college thinks \u2014 may be the perfect weapon against an active shooter on campus.<\/p>\n

Oakland University, a public school in Rochester Hills, near Detroit, is distributing thousands of 94-cent hockey pucks for just that reason.<\/p>\n

The distribution, which began earlier this month, stemmed from a March faculty active-shooter training session, which followed February’s shooting at a Parkland, Fla., high school that left 17 dead.<\/p>\n

A participant at the training asked Oakland University Police Chief Mark Gordon what items people could use to defend themselves on the campus, which has a no-weapons policy, the\u00a0Detroit Free Press reports.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

The faculty union followed up on the idea, purchasing 2,500 hockey pucks: 800 for union members and 1,700 for students, the\u00a0Free Press<\/em>\u00a0reports.<\/p>\n

The school conducts active-shooter training sessions multiple times a year, teaching the\u00a0“run, hide, fight” method<\/a>, which emphasizes fleeing an active-shooter situation above all else, hiding if fleeing isn’t an option \u2014 and fighting if hiding isn’t, either.<\/p>\n

Fighting, with a hockey puck or other means, should be “an absolute last strategy,” Gordon told the\u00a0Free Press<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The faculty union at Michigan’s Oakland University purchased 2,500 hockey pucks to be used as a potential weapon of last resort. The pucks also double as a fundraising tool.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Here is the quote of the week:<\/p>\n

“If you threw [a hockey puck] at a gunman, it would probably cause some injury. It would be a distraction, if nothing else,” Gordon\u00a0told WXYZ, a local ABC station.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I could be wrong but it would only distract a gunman long enough to put a bullet in your ass.\u00a0 I doubt a bunch of prissy libtards\u00a0prancing around with hard rubber is really all that new.\u00a0 \u00a0I think rubber dicks might be an even bigger distraction.\u00a0 Not sure if they make good door stops though.\u00a0 Maybe one of you fine people would know about all that.<\/p>\n

I do like that each puck is serialized…do they require a background check or can any loon purchase one?<\/p>\n

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S ource: For Defense Against Active Shooters, University Hands Out Hockey Pucks : NPR<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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