I would not doubt that she is. But they come from the people she hired to make them so she could garner sympathy. therefore, is she receiving threats? She said she was and she probably paid someone to make them. Are the threats genuine? No.
Where I sit, I am continually surprised that the loudest and shrillest voices calling for our persecution and disarmament are not quietly disappearing, or turning up swinging from lamp posts. Just goes to show that we are far more tolerant than they are.