Anita Sarkeesian cancels university speech following school shooting threat

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Feminist media critic Anita Sarkeesian has cancelled a planned speech at a North American university after staff received an anonymous email threatening "the deadliest school shooting in American history".
Sarkeesian, creator of The Tropes vs Women in Video Games project, said she was forced to cancel her talk at Utah State University because the police "wouldn't take steps to prevent concealed firearms at the event".
She had requested pat downs or metal detectors following the threat, but because of Utah's open carry laws police would not perform firearm searches.
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