Floored. Stunned. WTF. OMFG.

Have people gone nucking futs?

To prepare for an active shooter, faculty and students at Oakland University are arming themselves …

The idea … grew out of a training session … on what they should do if a gunman enters their classroom.

A participant asked what people could bring to campus to be better prepared in case they need to fight back. The university has a no-weapons policy.

… Be ready to throw something — anything — that could distract a shooter, even a hockey puck …

The idea caught on, so the university bought all the faculty and students a hockey puck to carry around with them in case they need to defend themselves from someone with a more substantial weapon.

This is so wrong on so many levels.

• (Yes, there is a public relations aspect to this), but was there any cost-benefit analysis of whether spending $2,500 this way was the best idea?
• It seems to me that a puck isn’t a weapon because it hasn’t been used as a weapon. Yet. Once they are used in an active shooter situation, will they have to be banned? Even worse, once one is used in a non-shooter situation, must they be banned?
• Throwing something is not the worst idea ever. But the principle is that you’re extending the range over which you can defend yourself. Oddly, that’s the same range principal that has made handguns so popular over the last few centuries.
• Pucks are actually a pretty good, dense, thing to turn into a projectile. Oddly, that’s the same dense projectile principal that has made bullets so popular over the last few centuries.
• Wouldn’t a baseball be better than a puck, on a purely aerodynamic basis? Better range? Higher accuracy?
• Here’s a real stinker: Oakland has chosen to poorly arm a broader group, rather than to better arm a smaller group … work out the calculus on whether that’s a good choice or not.
• Did it occur to them that, say, planes have been known to have armed marshals on them, but airlines have never distributed pucks with the peanuts?
• Honestly, I’m not being flippant here. If the goal of the pucks is to distract an active shooter, it seems there might be better ways, like a beehive hanging in the corner of every room.
• Take that last one seriously … at what level of distraction would an active shooter consider shooting even more just to get people to stop distracting them???

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