Death threats and conceal carry laws forced Anita Sarkeesian – the creator of the video series “Tropes vs Women in Video Games” – to cancel a talk at Utah State University last week. A prominent critic of the misogyny inherent in many popular video games, Sarkeesian is no stranger to threats and controversy. But because Utah’s gun laws prevented university security from prohibiting firearms at the event, Sarkessian felt that, in the end, holding the talk would be too big a risk. She spoke about her decision, and many other topics, to National Public Radio’s Arun Rath.

“They informed me that they couldn’t do any kind of screening for weapons, which was a little mind-boggling to me,” Sarkeesian told NPR. “The threat received was very reminiscent of sort of copycat killers of these misogynist massacres that had been done previously. I was like, ‘Can you at least have metal detectors or do pat-downs?’ And they refused to do that. So I declined and canceled the event because I felt like that was too high of a risk to put me and the students in.”

According to the Standard-Examiner, the specific threat at issue here was delivered via an email to the university.

“If you do not cancel her talk, a Montreal Massacre style attack will be carried out against the attendees, as well as students and staff at the nearby Women’s Center,” the message reads. “I have at my disposal a semi-automatic rifle, multiple pistols, and a collection of pipe bombs.”

The “Montreal Massacre” refers to a 1989 multiple slaying in Canada, where Marc Lépine killed 14 women, four men and injured 10 in the name of “fighting feminism” before committing suicide. This threat is only the latest leveled against Sarkeesian since she announced her Women in Video Games project.

“Since I announced that I was going to be doing a video series specifically looking at the representations of women in video games I have been attacked, and ultimately terrorized, for two years because of this series,” Sakeesian told NPR. “Everything from my social media accounts flooded with misogynist and racist slurs to trying to hack into my social media and email.”