Oakland University said using the discs is a last resort but could still cause «quite the distraction.»
Students and faculty members at a university in Michigan have been distributed with hockey pucks as part of plans to protect themselves from a potential active shooter.
Oakland University, a public school in Rochester Hills, Detroit, is handing out 2,500 pucks to students and faculty union members following a discussion which rose from an active shooter training session in March in the wake of the massacre in Parkland, Florida, which left 17 people dead.
When asked how faculty members could protect themselves and others in a school that has a zero weapons policy, Oakland University Police Chief Mark Gordon suggested throwing something heavy—using a puck as an example—if running or hiding is not an option.
«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,» Gordon told the Detroit Free Press .
