Hockey pucks launched in self defense against potential shooters at the University of Michigan

How do you stop a villain with a gun while there is no good guy with a gun? Maybe throw him a hockey puck.

A university in the suburbs of Detroit is distributing hockey pucks as a form of self-defense against potential shooters, according to reports.

With Oakland University having a policy banning weapons, University Police Chief Mark Gordon suggested using a hockey puck to distract a gunman.

"The first thing that came to my mind was a hockey puck, I was a hockey coach for my growing children, I remember being hit at the head with a hockey puck once and it hurt me, "said University Police Chief Mark Gordon in Detroit at FOX 2

"The first thing that came to my mind was a hockey puck, I was a hockey coach for my growing children, I remember being hit at the head with a hockey puck once and it hurt me. "

– Mark Gordon, chief of police at Oakland University

Gordon said that to fight effectively, faculty and students must be prepared to throw heavy objects that can cause distraction. Gordan said the pucks did the trick and could easily be carried in briefcases or backpacks.

"It was a sort of impulsive idea that seemed to have some merit and made its way," Gordon told Detroit News.

At Gordon's suggestion, Professor Tom Discenna, president of the teachers union, launched an effort to buy 2,500 hockey pucks for union members and students, the Free Press reported.

"800 of them have been distributed to our faculty members and there are 1,700 others that I work with the student congress to distribute to our students," Discenna told FOX 2.

"It's just the idea of ​​something, a reminder that you're not helpless and that you're not helpless in the classroom," Discenna told the newspaper.

"It's just the idea of ​​something, a reminder that you're not helpless and that you're not helpless in the classroom."

– Professor Tom Discenna, University of Oakland

The black disks were distributed earlier this month and are part of a campaign to raise money for locks inside the doors of classrooms, the report says.

The effort, spurred by the need for safety education after Virginia Tech unleashed in 2007, "will cause faculty and students to have a plan to defend themselves rather than just freeze," Gordon told the Detroit News.

In May, polling results revealed that nearly three-quarters of Michigan teachers opposed any attempt to arm teachers, the Free Press reported.