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Originally Posted by RainMaker
I feel like sending threats about mass shootings should be illegal if it's not. Even if you don't have the means, that still causes havoc at schools and with resources.
Feels like a few weeks in juvie would scare off the kids who are doing this to get out of a test but who knows. I just hate that people can fuck with other people, businesses, schools, etc and suffer no consequences.
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I generically agree with you, but if it's an issue of optimal vs. practical, I can also see why it isn't happening. Optimally, for every credible threat, there are criminal charges AND you lockdown/evacuate the location, and for every non-credible threat, there are criminal charges, but you don't have to lockdown/evacuate. That said, other than Jon's comments above, I don't have any sort of sense of how it is in Georgia, but I know for a fact that here in Greensboro--and I don't have reason to believe that we're outliers--right now they simply don't have the bandwidth to investigate/arrest/prosecute hardly any juvenile misdemeanors. (And for that matter, they're also not going especially hard on adult misdemeanors that aren't "easy" arrests.) I've been aware of that fact for months, but I hadn't really connected it to these sorts of threats until now. So, yeah, I guess upon further thought it shouldn't surprise me that generally folks are skating on these. :sigh: