You don’t stand up on an airplane and yell hijack. You don’t walk into a movie theater and yell fire, and you don’t get online and post that you’re going to shoot up a school. It’s going to get your ass sent to jail.

A 10-year-old was photographed, perp-walked, and prosecuted in 2022 for making a hoax threat to a Florida school

Around the country, communities are being battered by a wave of school shooting threats, sparking emergency notifications, urgent group chats and heightened fears among parents that their child’s school could be the next Parkland or Sandy Hook or Uvalde — or any other town hit by mass shootings.