Before voting on the request for rifles and training, the PSCRB considered a number of viewpoints, which included listening to the powerful two cents of Evergreen’s Geoduck Student Union. In a public statement, the GSU recommended that the PSCRB “reject the … spending proposal of $10,000 from the Student Affairs Equipment fund for the purchase of three rifles, ammunition … and active shooter training.”
The GSU summarily rejected the “Active Shooter Response Plan,” reasoning that both the plan and the proposal to buy rifles “were written and produced by the administration and police services without input from … the community.”
In their review process, the GSU conducted a student survey in which concerns about sexual assault and natural disasters outranked the risk of an active shooter. Along with an earthquake response plan and “a student organized (sic) escort service … to reduce the threat of sexual assault,” the GSU encouraged “preventative, non-violent means to deal with the unlikely problem of a campus shooter.”

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