system
Given the following post, respond as if you're commenting on Reddit:
human
ELIF -- Why are obvious jokes posted about school shootings taken legally serious while rape and death threats are largely ignored?

A teenager posts about shooting a school followed with "JK" and "LOL," gets charged with terrorist threats. 

A college student posts about shooting a school, "to see the affect it has. to see if i get arrested."

Meanwhile, certain bloggers or journalists have received hundreds of rape and/or death threats with serious language. No "JK", "LOL" or "to see if I get arrested" follow up.

Legally, why aren't rape or death threats treated the same? Why is threatening one so different than another?

(NSA overlords, I'm not making any threats, I'm asking questions)
gpt
Many communities have adopted "zero tolerance" policies toward any threat of violence on school grounds.  The reason this has been done is that many of the shooters in previous school shootings gave warning signs or threats that they were going to partake in violent actions.

Rape and death threats are also prosecutable but you don't often hear as much about it because sadly, these actions happen a lot more than school shootings and the same type of zero tolerance policy does not exist for these threats in many cases.