http://www.dailywire.com/news/38782/universitys-new-initiative-defend-against-shooters-james-barrett
With arming teachers with guns out of the question due to university policy, one school in Michigan has come up with a new defense initiative for faculty and students: hockey pucks.
According to the Detroit News, Oakland University in Auburn Hills, Michigan, has already spent $2,500 on hockey pucks, which it is distributing to faculty and students as a "last resort" line of defense against school shooters.
"Oakland University Police Chief Mark Gordon said the idea emerged during a training session he was giving earlier this year on surviving an active shooter situation," the outlet reports. "Gordon, a former youth hockey coach, said since the university has an ordinance against weapons, one attendee asked what staff and students could bring to prepare themselves for a fight. He recalled once being struck in the head with a puck and said it "caused a fair amount of damage to me.'"...
No duh ... we can tell. Why don't you issue them hockey sticks, instead, eh? You get one throw with a puck, but a stick can be used to hit again and again and again.
The Detroit News cites Garry J. Gilbert, director of the school's journalism program who was initially skeptical but has since changed his tune upon attending a training session.
"My first reaction was: You are talking about facing an assault weapon and asking us to fight back with hockey pucks? It sounded silly," he said. "Then I went through the training session, and it all made sense. None of us want to face an armed assailant. Students will look to us for leadership in a situation like that."
Yeah, they'll be looking to you for leadership, Mr. Gilbert ... as in "go ahead, dumbass ... you toss your puck and die first, while the rest of us do our best to run away from the situation."
So far the university has purchased 2,500 pucks, which cost about 94 cents each, and has stamped each with the union's logo. Eight hundred of the faculty have already received the pucks, while the remaining 1,700 are being distributed to students. The student association has already ordered another 1,000. ...
Ah, NOW I understand! The pucks will have the union's logo on them - THAT will make ALL the difference in the world!!!
WOW ... so-called institutions of higher education staffed by certifiable MORONS. It is simply astounding that these "geniuses" can cross a street without getting run over by a bus!
No ... the real answer is to have concealed carry by licensed citizens (students, professors, administrators, and staff) on campus, like in Texas. While you're lobbing your pucks with the union label one time at 30 miles per hour, we're firing 230 grain jacketed hollow point bullets at 1,000 feet per second. Hmmm ... a question for the class? Which alternative would you personally want to have available to you in a life or death situation, eh?
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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