It’s isn’t just Harvard students who are upset over the bomb threat hoax during their finals week.

Hillsdale College student Thomas Novelly is also angry.

After I heard this story, I was mad. Wait, scratch that: I was furious, for multiple reasons.

I thought to myself, “Is this normal now?”. Are bomb threats going to become a regular thing? We have reached a point where it is actually a possibility to be attacked in our schools and universities. A place that is such a beacon of knowledge like Harvard now isn’t safe from the possibility of attack. The person who called in this threat got their pitiful fifteen minutes of fame, and if it was a student, then they successfully delayed their final exams for a day.

This threat, however, accomplished something far worse. It contributed to a sense of distraction and a feeling of fear among students at educational institutions, and it gave ammo to liberal politicians trying to push their agenda.

This feeling of fear in our schools was displayed in 1999 with the Columbine tragedy. We have had many others since then, including Sandy Hook just over a year ago. In fact, there have been over 60 accounts of student-related and school-related shootings since 1999. This feeling of fear has led to many precautions being taken in our schools, and rightfully so. Harvard’s emergency system was working incredibly well and kept all students informed and safe.

But there are no precautions a school can take to remedy the feeling of fear a student can have when returning to those halls after an evacuation. I, for one, would hate to have to see the day where I have to walk into my university classroom, take off my shoes, and go through a metal detector just to listen to a lecture. False alarms are never a joke, and it is sad to see that the proverbial “pulling of the red fire alarm” has been replaced with calling in a bomb threat. Very recent events have made the latter far too real for students.

…Progressives and liberals are not going to be able to legislate their way out of these tragedies. Restricting the tools and appendages to the problems we face in society (such as guns) doesn’t actually solve the problem. It merely takes away those tools from moral Americans who use it protect themselves and because have the right to own such things.

False alarms–and politicians’ tendency to exploit them–are incredibly dangerous, they distract us further and further from what the true solution should be.