Anita Chabria: A school threat. Another reminder we are living in the age of gun trauma

The call came at 7 a.m., before I had enough coffee in me to process it: A recorded message from the principal of my daughter's high school, informing us of a credible threat.

There wasn't too much detail, just that the police had contacted her about a Facebook post that named the school. Classes would go on as usual, with extra security.

Now what? I thought.

We can't pretend anymore that a kid posting on social media about shooting his peers is a joke or that it couldn't happen in our child's school — or anywhere, for that matter.

Do I send her anyway, because a day of lost school is hard to make up? What would I do if I told her to go