These comics first ran several years ago but even then, ever since Columbine, kids younger than Ruthie were being suspended for writing lists such as these — and Library Ladies would have been fired for not ratting them out.
Post-9/11, these lists were being called “terroristic threats,” and kids were being hauled off to the police station. In handcuffs.
All this being said, though, “I guess I’ll have to add one more name” was perversely funny.