[KenHorse]

"Terroristic threats"? What the hell does that mean? This is exactly the kind of abuse of the word that we feared.

That term has been defined as law for decades in some states. It's not a new phenomenon

[ErnBatavia]

"Terroristic threats"?

I was on an attempted murder jury and that was one of the three charges...(I was an alternate, so sat out the deliberations - they found him not guilty of that).

It's kind of an "add-on" piling on thing by the DA. It applies if you address your target before you pull the trigger - such as "I'm going to kill you"; hence you've made a threat.