I Don't Get It...

Just this afternoon, the local news reported that a bomb scare occurred in a mall in L.A.  However, the item looked more like an egg wrapped in duct tape--because that's exactly what it was.

mynewsla.com/crime/2015/11/28/…

And to think, this happened just a few months after everyone in mainstream and social media blasted the cops in Texas for arresting a teen over concerns that he brought a homemade clock--that actually looked a lot like a bomb--to a school full of children.

So am I to understand that if red-staters and blue-staters are worried about and jump the gun on the same thing, only the red-staters are paranoid idiots?  How does that work?