This is worse than the school district in Pennsylvania that handed out buckets of rocks for active shooter defense.

From campussafetymagazine.com:

One Detroit-area college is taking a unique approach toward helping students and faculty protect themselves against a potential active shooter: arming them with hockey pucks.

Campus police and school officials at Oakland University in Rochester, Mich., came up with the idea following a presentation on emergency preparedness.

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While discussing the school’s recommended “run, hide, fight” strategy to handling campus threats, police chief Mark Gordon says one person asked what they should fight with since the campus has a no-weapons policy, reports WCVB.

Gordon, who is also a youth hockey coach, says getting hit in the head with a hockey puck gave him the idea.

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“It was just kind of a spur-of-the-moment idea that seemed to have some merit to it and it kind of caught on,” he said. “[Hockey pucks] have enough mass to cause injury, small enough to be thrown, [are] portable and they’re not considered a weapon.”

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