Bomb threats force second consecutive day of school closures in Springfield, Ohio
Not really. Threats don't
force anything.
They
caused the closures; But that's just a reflection on the cowardice of those who capitulated.
Allowing terrorists to win on the basis of mere threats is foolish, as it just enables and encourages more of the same - the barrier to becoming a terrorist is effectively nonexistent when they don't need to actually make or plant any bombs, and can instead disrupt the lives of their victims with mere words.
It's a
LOT easier to obtain an anonymous email account than it is to obtain explosives, make them into a bomb, and then plant that bomb at your target's location.
Ever since we allowed Bin Laden to force us all to take our shoes off at the airport, we seem to have been bending over backwards to make terrorism easier and more effective than it ought to be.
The appropriate response to bomb threats, as a member of the public, is to ignore them completely, and go about our lives as though no threat existed, at least until such time as law enforcement authorities have shown the threat to be
highly credible.