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JennJayBee t1_j9nrtu2 wrote

Reply to comment by karibear909 in Numerous Colorado schools receive threats and reports of ‘active shooters’ Wednesday by TheKittCatt

It's happened to a number of schools in many states at this point. NPR did a few articles on it. Nobody knows the motive, but they don't appear to be coming from inside the US.

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flaccidcolon t1_j9pb9t8 wrote

Oregon got these calls on Tuesday. It was pandemonium here for a hot second.

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JennJayBee t1_j9pnrhd wrote

We got them here in Alabama back in December.

Thing is, most of these stories tend to report on them like it's a local or state issue. There's not been a ton of coverage on this as a national story. I just happened to have read stories here on reddit about some other states having similar hoax calls prior to the ones in Alabama, so when I started seeing alerts pop up for multiple schools and that they were hoaxes, I realized that's what had happened. Only a couple of other people I know had heard of the other incidents.

And then there's every time it happens again and the story is published here... I see very few comments (at least at first) from folks not realizing it's been happening all over the country for several months now.

So something has definitely been missing in the national coverage of this. It should be a bigger story than it has been.

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