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.
“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.”