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These ideas always seem to be cooked up by someone that has very little possibility of actually being there at go time.
Some teachers in the school my daughter goes to have talked about task organizing to take on an assailant. Barricading the door, athletes taking them on at entry, or going out the window if it’s near the ground.
But there’s no program, most of the teachers don’t want to think about it.
The trick to the puck as a weapon is that speed and kinetic energy must be increased.
I propose adding a thigh-length athletic tube sock to the kit-out, and drilling out holes in the puck to pour lead into...
Agree with whoever said this is just gonna enrage the shooter even more. It may indeed serve as a distraction, and could even save lives. I'm no active shooter, but if I was, I think I'd shoot the puck throwers first, and repeatedly.
Your mindset needs work.
For a kid in a modern American school with a shooter at the door, it’s not “he won’t shoot me if I don’t enrage him.”
It’s more like, “I’m going to die. Would I rather do it meekly or not?”
its a step in the right direction IMO, whether its a hockey puck, a hatchet, or a stick of cotton candy. if I saw someone throwing something at me in my peripheral vision I'm sure itd cause me to flinch for a second. anything is better that laying in a corner waiting to be a victim
What happens when they run out of pucks and all they're left with is a (more) pissed off shooter? Never bring a hockey puck to a gunfight.
I doubt very much that is their mindset......they await instruction on how to act......like good little automatons.
To clarify, are these standard capacity pucks or restricted capacity?
I'm sure the high-ranking ones realize this already. What makes you think, as a matter of strategy, they want to REDUCE instances of violence at schools?How about give the pucks back to the athletic department , and make it mandatory for every teacher to have at the minimum a Taser in every classroom and a long arm in the school for the resource officer. When are they going to realize that gun free zones and lightly armed ROs are recipe for tragedy.
You’d know, of course.
You spend as much time with current students as I do.
Wait. No you don’t. These kids have been doing ALICE drills for years. A lot of them are competitive athletes in prime physical condition. They’re not all eager to huddle in a corner and be mown down like cattle. Any kid in my class who plays football by putting the boot in after a sack, any girl in my class who plays hockey and happily takes her opponents’ heads off with her stick... I’ve got a few in every class, and so does every other high school teacher.
Mindset. Teach them it’s okay to fight back, give them even the slightest means to do so, and they’re people you’d want by your side, even if say 2/3 of the class is cowering in a far corner.
At least those ones will be out of the way.
A hockey stick might be more useful. Or a lacrosse stick with the real lacrosse balls, not the tennis balls they had us use in gym class.
But all this is easily thwarted with some athletic gear.
As it is, I've been told if I keep a baseball bat in the cab of my truck, I'd better have a ball and glove to go with it.The next step will be to register your hockey puck soon to be followed by your needing a license to purchase and carry one.
Totally agree
If you can toss a puck then you can be a lethal weapon.