DRAPER, Utah — Bryan Cunningham remembers being in a meeting talking about the threat of an active shooter on the campus of Utah Valley University.

“We begged,” Cunningham recalled. “We begged when I was there. This is going to be an active shooter situation nightmare if you don’t give us more officers.

“Give us more resources. Help us put together a plan. And it just was not done.”

One of the other people in the meeting – Val Peterson, UVU’s vice president of administration and a member of the Utah House of Representatives.

“We asked Val,” Cunningham said, “and his comment to me and every other officer in that department that day, ‘It’s been 25 years. We haven’t had one and we’re not going to have one.’

“I looked him in the face, and I said, ‘It’s not if. It’s when.’”

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