Leave it to academics to adopt a new way to defend students in college, by throwing sporting equipment at the shooter.

Since the university, located in Detroit Michigan, has a no weapons policy, the Detroit Police Chief, Mark Gordon, came up with the idea of using hockey pucks to distract a shooter. The idea caught on, and the university bought 2500 pucks at a cost of $2350 to arm faculty and some students.

The plan is to run and hide, and failing that,throw a hockey puck.

The university holds active shooter trainings several times a year. Gordon said they focus on fleeing first and then hiding as a second option. throwing a hockey puck should be “an absolute last strategy,” he said.  (CBS News)

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“Part of the strategy for fighting is you need to create a distraction to give yourself time as a group in a classroom to rush the gunman so you can get your hands on the gun and take it away from the shooter,” Gordon said. (WXYZ)

That makes me wonder… if a student or faculty is actually able to take the gun away from the shooter, and retains that weapon, will that student then have potential liability for being in possession?

The irony is thick here. The school has a no weapons policy, but the police chief and the school acknowledge that the little signs prohibiting guns won’t stop a criminal. They acknowledge that they’re only disarming good students and creating powerless victims. And their empowerment is hockey pucks, staplers, and chairs. Why not empower good people to be dangerous and protect themselves and others? Are the sheep so afraid of dangerous people that they cannot stand the thought that a good person could be dangerous?

I submit that we need more dangerous people walking the streets. The good kind. The kind like myself or other concealed carry holders. Weapons exist, and from the time of Cain and Abel, those with rotten hearts have been killing those without. It’s time that we reversed the trend and started applauding the schools, cities, and communities that embrace those who concealed carry and help keep our families safer.