Comment There is a difference. (Score 4, Interesting) 589
A "real and present threat" on a specific mall is a very different thing from a random threat.
There are 5300 movie theaters in the USA. If half of them show the movie, that's 2650 showings. If the terrorists attack *ten* showings (likely an overestimate), that's still less than half a percent chance of being impacted.
I'd take those odds.
The alternative is that random groups start making threats against everything they don't like while carrying through on just enough of them to keep people scared, and the population lives in fear.